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This play by George Bernard Shaw was mentioned in Soe Hok Gie : Catatan Seorang Demonstran no less than 3 times.

There was a whole entry in his diary about this play. He was impressed by the points raised in the story, Joan’s patriotism and persistence towards her beliefs, also the political issues where he compared Joan to Indonesia’s first President, and stated that a hero is someone willing to retreat and be forgotten.

But out of all the subjects raised in the play, one that interests me most is about her belief and the voice in her head which she claimed to be of God’s. I couldn’t help but question isn’t this how most religions begin? A loony claiming to have received a message from God? Because that’s what I think of Joan every time she talks about ‘The Voice’, that she is a bit of a loony.