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Write a note on the Chocolate Cream Soldier.

Describe the Chocolate Cream Soldier episode in your own words.

Chocolate Cream Soldiers episode is a mix of fun and naming infact, its a name given by Raina to Bluntschli by seeing figure.He calls it an anti romantic comedy. The other is by critics and scholars. They consider in farce. It is, therefore, natural that there is much hilarious matter in the play. He saw that repetition of the name Bluntschli would be quite common. There should be some other name to attract attention and that name should suit a farce. He thought out a name that not only suited this purpose but also highlighted the main character of the anti-romantic hero. The name, whenever uttered draws before us the picture of Bluntschli ravenously gobbling up the chocolate creams offered to him by Raina. So that this name is responsible for much fun and humour in the play. It is also connected with some affectionate feelings. Moreover, it shows how love sometimes grows out of mere liking for someone who appears funny and even contemptible. The beginning of the who episode is funny and the climax is most funny.

Bluntschli, when a fugitive in Raina’s bedroom, was telling her the importance of nourishment for a soldier in the battlefield. He himself caried chocolate instead of cartriges. When he hungrily said that he wished he has same chocolates, Raina gave him a box which had some chocolate creams. The way in which he accepts them and eats them, even sucking his fingers, fixes in her mind this picture of a soldier who loves chocolate more than anything else. A liking for him has taken root in her heart and, almost in play, she does something which has far-reaching results later on. She has told him that he is a chocolate cream soldier but she does not stop at it. She presents him her portrait but with natural shyness, and a bit of cunning and fun, she puts it in the pocket of her father’s coat with which he escapes in. She had hoped that he would find it, but she did not konw his nature. If she was romantic, Bluntschli was practical. The coat was merely a disguise for him. Moreover, it was an old coat of an old man. It was not Raina’s coat. So there was no question of his passing his hands all over it in affection with romantic feelings. He did not even keep it with him all the time, he pawned it for safe keeping.

The name, chocolate cream soldier given to him by Raina figure, again when, about five month later, Bluntschli comes to return the coat. On seeing him, Raina suddenly cries out, “Oh! the chocolate cream soldier!” There is some confusion but Raina explains it away and her mother supports her. But this is by no means the last of the photograph or of the chocolate cream soldier. Raina finds out from him that her photograph is very likely in the pocket of coat which her father is now wearing. Mercifully for her petkoff as discarded the coat for some time. Catherine is mending it. Raina gets a good opportunity to remove the photograph. When Nicola brings it she, pretending to help her father, dexterously takes the photograph from the pocket and throws it on the table before Bluntschli who covers it with a sheet of paper. But Petkoff had seen it. he now refers to it and gives his own meaning to the inscription: “Raina to her chocolate cream soldier.” He naturally thinks it is Sergius. After some discussion Bluntschli surprises them by the information that he was the chocolate cream soldier. This appellation is thus responsible for the new turn to the story and in the end, it does some service to its creator, Raina. She consents to marry her chocolate cream soldier which turns the stroy in new mode.