Professor Henry Corrie

CHARACTER SKETCH OF â€Å"PROFESSOR HENRY CORRIE† INTRODUCTION: St. John G. Ervine presents the hair-raising dramatization â€Å"PROGRESS† in which the story pivots around the characters of Professor Henry Corrie and his sister Mrs. Meldon. Teacher Henry Corrie is around sixty years old. He lives in a remoter town in the North of England. He is upbeat in disconnection since he can focus on his mystery research work. APPEARANCE: Corrie has cold humorless eyes. There are brutal lines all over however they are bidden behind the thickish beard.He is perilous yet evidently he doesn't appear to be so. He is an image of oppression. devastation, narrow-mindedness and realism. Wise SCIENTIST: Corrie is D. Sc. Also, profoundly, taught researcher of England. He is totally caught up in his exploration word. After a long lasting battle, he has been fruitful in finding an awful recipe of an overwhelming bomb. It will destroy an area. It will discharge an incredible, spreading noxious gas, without shading or smell. The individuals who will breathe in it, their bodies will spoil and rust and nothing will spare them cheerfully he says: â€Å"Ah!At last by paradise I Have done it, finally. † MATERIALISTIC AND UNPATRIOTIC: Corrie is the finished agent of today’s materialistic world. In spite of the fact that his bomb will kill thousands with quickly, and will clear out huge urban areas like Manchester yet he feels glad for his development and state: â€Å"This will carry notoriety and fortune to me. I will be rich now, yet more than that I will be well known. † He is frantic after riches. Insatiability and desire of riches has turned him materialistic and childish as well as unpatriotic. â€Å"If they won’t follow through on my cost, I’ll offer it to child ebody else†.This is the stature of foul play. The incredible researcher neglects to picture that if the adversary utilizes that bomb, his own nation men would be disposed of. UNSOCIAL AND UNCOURTOUS: Corrie is anything but a social man. He is so lost in his work that he has lost all enthusiasm for the people. In spite of the fact that he makes a guarantee to go to the station to the get his lone sister yet he doesn't go. It is the third passing commemoration of Eddie. Mrs. Meldon’s just child. She is tragic, rather than feeling for her, he gladly discusses his vile bomb. He is unfeeling and selfish.He constrains her to celebrate at the appalling development. He asks her: â€Å"but take a gander at the maher from a, Broad perspective. Set your Own emotions aside! †. Disdain FOR WOMEN: Corrie needs tasteful sense. He is a misogamist. He is unengaged with the better estimations of life. That is the reason he has not hitched so far. He despises ladies and his sister is no special case to his disdain. He state: â€Å"Oh how ladies do whine! No Application. No fixation. That’s why no ladies have Ever been incredible specialists or res earchers. † PROUD AND CALLOUS: Corrie is a two-timer is never helping to lessen neediness or yearning. Or maybe he has been occupied in imagining a perilous bomb for his own narrow minded intentions. In his own words: â€Å"With a solitary bomb we could Wipe out the number of inhabitants in a city As large as Manchester. Single bomb Charlotte! † CONCLUSION: Mrs Meldon asks him over and over to smother his malicious innovation. Be that as it may, he pays no regard to it. Or maybe he loses control and calls her dismal, dolt of a lady. He ridicules her thoughts, snickers brutally lastly says: â€Å"Well, shan’t. Surrender my Invention for a great deal of interest assumption! Not likely! † n her urgent advance to spare the world from decimation, she cuts him to death. Indeed he was the image of bad habit, annihilation and foe of humankind. He endured in a meriting way. CHARACTER SKETCH OF â€Å"MRS. MELDON† INTRODUCTION: St. John G. Ervine presents the hair-raising show â€Å"PROGRESS† in which the story turns around the characters of Mrs. Meldon and Professor Henry Corrie. Mrs. Meldon is likewise called Charlotte. Her heart overflows with the adoration for Mankind and is against wars and war hawks. She represents love and love, harmony and peacefulness unobtrusiveness and humankind.