During the first scene of Saint Joan, George Bernard Shaw presents to us several themes that will be later discussed in the play. Themes as miracles, feudalism, nationalism and even military tactics are mentioned and introduced in this scene, and they will be further developed.

Joan is already winning people over and for so it is in this exact scene that the play starts to develop.

With a humorous tone we are introduced to a situation in the castle of Vaucoulers. Robert de Baudricort is complaining to his steward about the fact that the hens are not laying eggs. We get to know the authority of Robert, who is not an obliging person:

Robert: No eggs! No eggs! Thousand thunders, man, what do you mean by no eggs?

Steward: Sir: it is not my fault. It is the act of God.

Robert: Blasphemy. You tell me there are no eggs; and you blame your Maker for it.

With this, the personality of Joan is reinforced as even Robert being the way he is, Joan is able to convince him to send her to Dauphin. Robert is convinced due to Joan's persistence and her religious arguments: elements of her personality that will appear over and over through the play.

Throughout the play we have it exemplified when we learn that the king Charles has a weak economical situation and owes money to other courtiers. The nationalism is later discussed in scene IV:

Archbishop: A miracle, my friend, is an event which creates faith. That is the purpose and nature of miracles. They may seem very wonderful to the people who witness them, and very simple to those who perform them. That does not matter; if they confirm or create faith they are true miracles. (...) Miracles are not frauds because they are often very simple and innocent contrivances by which the priest fortifies the faith of his flock.

The Nobleman: A Frenchman! Where did you pick up that expression? Are these Burgundians and Bretons and Picards and Gascons beginning to call themselves Frenchmen, just as our fellows are beginning to call themselves Englishmen? They actually talk of France and England as their countries. Theirs, if you please! What is to become of me and you if that way comes into fashion? (...) men cannot serve two masters. If this can't of serving their country once takes hold of them, goodbye to the authority of their feudal lords, and goodbye to the authority of the Church. That is, goodbye to you and me.

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