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    Pygmalion‚ perhaps Shaw’s best-loved play‚ tells of Professor Henry Higgins attempts to transform the poor‚ Cockney flower-girl‚ Eliza Doolittle‚ into a lady by changing her speech. Higgins hears her speaking one night as she sells flowers‚ and he says that‚ within three months‚ he can change her speech so dramatically that she will be accepted in the highest society. The next morning‚ she shows up at his door‚ offering to pay for lessons because she wants to run her own flower shop. The lessons

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    Pygmalion did contradict the audience’s views‚ as the type of people who would read Pygmalion or see it in the theater would be the upper class‚ as the middle class and the lower class wouldn’t be able to afford it. The upper class were outraged at Shaw’s accusations and portrayals of the upper class. “Pygmalion… scandalized it’s… audiences in 1914.” This quotation is absolutely true; Pygmalion teaches us how the upper class ostracized the lower class‚ and the outrageous and demoralizing way in which

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    c. The purpose of myth plays in the life of ancient Greeks was to help them answer questions they could not with the understanding they had at the time‚ or about the science of that life. d. No they do not have the same names. Part Two Pygmalion was a sculptor and a king. He was sculpting a woman out of ivory and to him was the most beautiful sculpture of the woman of his heart’s desire. When he saw how beautiful of a sculpture he made‚ and that she wouldn’t respond to his gifts and treats

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    Pygmalion Essay The Feminist Literary Criticism that I am going to apply is the importance of woman‚ their relationships with one another‚ what each of them do like occupation‚ etc.‚ and explaining what Shaw is trying to say about Feminist. First‚ in this essay‚ I am going to talk about the importance of woman and their role for Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw. He sees that many women in the play have their own unique way. For example‚ Eliza Doolittle has been made into a beautiful lady

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    Pygmalion Characters

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    Characters sketches Professor Henry Higgins  -  Henry Higgins is a professor of phonetics who plays Pygmalion to Eliza Doolittle’s Galatea. He is the author of Higgins’ Universal Alphabet‚ believes in concepts like visible speech‚ and uses all manner of recording and photographic material to document his phonetic subjects‚ reducing people and their dialects into what he sees as readily understandable units. He is an unconventional man‚ who goes in the opposite direction from the rest of society

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    George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion addresses the discourse of education (linguistic retraining in particular) and its interrelationship with other discourses‚ such as class‚ and the transformation of individual and social self. It also deals with the dynamics of teacher-student power relationship in the context of education discourse. Believing that education should produce humane and responsible citizens instead of docile slaves‚ Shaw displays the evils of an incompetent education system. This article

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    ! Caterpillar to Butterfly The play Pygmalion starts with Bernard Shaw showing a common “poor girl” (1‚12) Eliza in poverty selling flowers on the streets in England. Eliza is shown standing up to a man who is taking detailed notes on her vocabulary. This is significant as you see her fierce personality right at the beginning of the play. Throughout the play‚ you watch Eliza Doolittle the flower girl learning how to speak and transform into a lady according to the standards of Professor Higgins

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    Pygmalion in Management Name: Institution: Date: Pygmalion in Management Introduction The following is the summary of the article Pygmalion in Management by J. Sterling Livingston in the July /August‚ 1969 Harvard Business Review. The manner in which managers handle their subordinates is mainly influenced by their expectation. Therefore‚ the article clearly points out that worker performance in a particular organization is directly related to

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    Soul and Eliza Doolittle

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    Describe the primary ways in which Eliza Doolittle changes in the course of the play. Which is the most important transformation‚ and what clues does Shaw give us to indicate this? While Eliza Doolittle is being remade‚ Victorian society itself can be said to be unmade. How does Shaw reveal the pruderies‚ hypocrisies‚ and inconsistencies of this higher society to which the kerbstone flower girl aspires? Do his sympathies lie with the lower or upper classes? "The great secret‚ Eliza‚ is not having

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    Pygmalion Essay Distinctive voice refers to a variety of voice types and the function that voice plays in different texts. The personality or position of a speaker or character is reflected through voice. Distinctive voice can be used to represent an issue‚ a group of people‚ a set of values‚ a point of view or a variety of perspectives. All people have a distinctive voice; our voice is developed and changed through our experiences‚ interactions and understanding of the world. The language‚ the

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