and Walter Bohun are specimens of such characters nbsp Byronic Hero In his play Shaw displays a Byronic hero through the character of Valentine The Byronic Hero is a special type of hero created by the English Romantic poet Lord Byron whose character depends on faults A Byronic Hero has some features such as being tall and handsome educated adventurous and a womanizer These features are represented in the character of Valentine He proposes to many women before seeing Gloria Mrs Clandon tries to dissuade Gloria from falling in love with Valentine nbsp How many times he has laid the trap in which he has caught you how often he has baited it with the same speeches how much practice it has taken to make him perfect in his chosen part in life as the Duelist of Sex nbsp Humorous Character Shaw creates a humorous character in his play through the character of Walter Boon who is the wise fool in this play Professionally he is the waiter at the Marine Hotel and is probably the most level rational and understanding of the entire play Shaw expresses Walter Boon as a philosopher Walter Boon delivers the message of the play He tells Mr Crampton about the mystery of life nbsp It s the unexpected that always happens isn t it You never can tell sir you never can tell nbsp Adventurous The adventurous mentality is one of the features of Byronic Hero Shaw reveals this feature in the character of Valentine He is a struggling dentist who was set up recently in the seaside town after failing as a respectable medical practitioner in various parts of England But he is a man of conscience So he tells the patients the brute truth about them instead of what they want to be told In this respect he is an image of his creator Shaw and as he says This outspokenness of nature spelled his ruin in the past nbsp Stereotypical Feminist Shaw satirizes the stereotypical feminist in the play Mrs Clandon is a feminist who wants freedom and privacy from her husband Mrs Clandon separated herself and her children from her husband Mr Crampton whom she considers a domestic tyrant That is why she changed her family title and taught her children her ideas and morality She teaches her children about her morality and ideas But she fails because her daughter Gloria disobeys her ideals and falls in love with Valentine nbsp The Presence of All Professions Shaw presents many professions in the play At the beginning of the play we notice that Valentine is a dentist Walter Boon is a professional waiter at the Marine Hotel but his son Walter Bohun is a barrister Thus Shaw represents professions In the drama Bohun reveals an important message for contemporary society He says nbsp It's unwise to be born it's unwise to be married it's unwise to live and it's unwise to die nbsp Other Mingled Characters Reserved mind Abnormal mentality Sympathy etc nbsp In conclusion Shaw s character analysis can be compared to Shakespeare's who belongs to all ages of English literature Shaw like Shakespeare has been able to visualize a clear picture of human beings before us