Bernard Shaw is an Incomplete Feminist——A Feminist Semiotic Reading of Candida

As an advocate for feminism, George Bernard Shaw, to awaken especially women to their subordinate and captivated posi-tion and opportunity for being New woman, wrote Candida in a time when women were stuck into"the virgin mother"role. Howev-er, from the perspective of feminist semiotic theory, we found that although creating a new woman different from the one defined bythe common standard, Bernard Shaw still didn’t break the chain of portraying a"sign woman"-"the virgin mother"controlled bythe patriarchal prejudice from male gaze. In addition, Candida becomes an object portrayed through two men characters and she be-comes the means to expose the developing of man character rather than the subject in the play. And Shaw’s limited feminism is al-so reflected in his other plays. Therefore, Bernard Shaw is an incomplete feminist.