various novels and plays to make them ideal for the big-screen. In many cases‚ directors strive to keep their screenplay adaptations true to the original literature; however‚ viewers often find contrasts in certain areas of the film. George Bernard Shaw‚ author of the play Pygmalion‚ who had passed away prior to the production of My Fair Lady in 1964‚ therefore‚ he could not assist in the transition from play to musical. For this reason‚ director George Cukor has attempted to retain some similarities
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Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) or his works Shaw belongs to the late Victorian age but his era is named as Shavian era or age because he is one of those writers of English history who were able to drag the audience out of their homes on the basis of their strong management of characters and sense of morality. According to Shaw‚ his dramas come under the category of problem plays‚ argumentative plays or plays of ideas. For him‚ society is the basic theme that should be employed in all the plays. Shaw depicts
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Infantry commanded by Colonel Robert Gould Shaw during the Civil War. Question Why was the 54th Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteer important during the Civil War? Structure and Sources This paper will first include the prelude to the 54th Volunteer Mass Regiment and how they started. This first section will include the history behind regiment and volunteer black regiments during the Civil War. It will also contain the origins of Colonel Robert Gould Shaw and how he came to command the 54th. The important
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contributions to realism In 1891‚ Shaw writes The Quintessence of Ibsenism after seeing Ibsen’s A Doll House two years before. It is a criticism that tells us about Shaw more than Ibsen. In his book he talks about many aspects: the realist and idealist‚ that idealist wears mask and avoid the truth and reality whereas the realist faces it‚ and the human behaviors should justify itself by its effect on life; no one is villain and no one is hero because in reality‚ as Shaw sees‚ there is no complete man
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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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herself but never pushy‚ that she was distinguished within the society‚ and illiterate but not unknowledgeable or ignorant. Also she is described as being intimidating and therefore no one described her as beautiful according to her looks. Bernard Shaw easily promotes these thoughts through the characters of both Joan and others around her. Joan’s actions throughout the play help show how she can be all of the above descriptions plus more. In addition to Shaw’s opinion of her looks and mental well-being
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noting that it contains elements of socialist theory‚ if that is the reading we choose. Shaw is delighted to make his audience feel uncomfortable by bringing out the contradictions‚ the silliness‚ or the plain viciousness of the beliefs and practices of society. One of the chief ideas present in most of his plays is that artificiality and false values prevent men and women from learning and spiritual growth. Shaw seldom preaches his ideas in the plays. He merely shows his sympathetic characters behaving
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comedic style In this modern interpretation of the Greek tale about a sculptor who falls in love with his perfect female statue‚ Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw tells the story of two opposite people and their conflicting desires. In this play‚ Shaw criticizes the British class system and makes a statement towards his feminist views. Shaw also incorporates three types of comedy‚ and these are: old comedy‚ physical comedy and comedy of manners. Old comedy is characterized by its satirical tone
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and Henrik Ibsen. It included realistic – sometimes sordid or violent – depictions of contemporary everyday life‚ especially the life of the lower classes. A New Form of Realism: George Bernard Shaw A New Form of Realism: George Bernard Shaw Shaw was born in Dublin in 1856. He died in 1950. Although Shaw still has his roots in Victorian England‚ his plays point far ahead into the 20th century. Besides several novels‚ his work comprises a great
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others lives. Shaw does not end the play as most would expect though. The general public expects and practically demands a happy ending of a play that seems so highly romantic‚ but Shaw provides the audience with a strictly logical ending instead. In the end‚ Eliza becomes tired of Higgins’s pompous attitude as she grows independent‚ and leaves him to marry a typical romantic character of the middle-class. The play then ends with Henry mocking her idea of marrying this man (Shaw). The audience
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