All the pieces show corresponds to an important claim brought Brecht contemporary theater, namely: the theater should strive "to depict the nature man as modifiable and depends on the class
Amenities "[1]. far as Shaw was interested in us the character and social status, particularly evidenced by the fact that a radical restructuring of the character he made even the main theme of the play "Pygmalion". After the exceptional success play and made it to the musical "My Fair Lady" story of Eliza was converted by Higgins Professor of Phonetics of street girls in fashionable lady, today, perhaps better known than the Greek myth.
Pygmalion was a fabulous king of Cyprus, fell in love with the mess it created statue of a girl, which subsequently married after the revitalization of
Aphrodite at his urgent request. Clearly the intent which pursued Shaw, calling the name of a mythical king of the play. Name
Pygmalion should recall that Eliza Doolittle was created by Alfred
Higgins in the same manner as Galatea Pygmalion. Man created man-this is the lesson that, by his own admission Shaw, "intensively consciously didactic "play. This is the same lesson, which called
Brecht, demanding that "the construction of one shape was carried out according to construction of another figure, because in life we are forming mutually friend another "[2].
Among literary critics, there is a perception that the play Shaw, more than play of other playwrights, promote certain political ideas.
The doctrine of the mutability of human nature, and depending on the class
Gear is nothing, as the doctrine of social determinism of the individual. The play "Pygmalion" is a good handbook, which addresses the problem of determinism. Even the author himself considered it "an outstanding didactic play?. main problem, which show skillfully addresses in "Pygmalion" was the issue
"Whether the person alter