Arms and The Man

Arms and The Man – which includes a comprehensive exposition and summary of the plot, characters, and themes. The book provides a detailed breakdown of the play’s events and characters for students.

Raina Petkoff, a young, idealistic Bulgarian woman, is engaged to the heroic Major Sergius Saranoff. One night, a pragmatic Swiss mercenary, Captain Bluntschli, bursts into her bedroom while fleeing the Bulgarian army. He is exhausted and prefers carrying chocolates to ammunition, which shatters Raina’s romantic ideals of a soldier. She hides him, and she and her mother help him escape the next morning in an old coat belonging to her father, Major Petkoff.