Feminism In both Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw and The Kitchen God’s Wife by Amy Tan‚ the reader is pushed to understand the nature of feminists in a new way. This purpose is carried out with the use of multiple feminist characters‚ a drastic change in a characters outlook on their situation‚ and the concept of making your own destiny. The protagonists in both of these literary works is female‚ and they are amazingly similar considering Shaw wrote Pygmalion eighty seven years before The
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passed over” (Shaw Act 5). The contrast between the two ladies is that Kate changes her personality in the end‚ and Liza stands up for herself and stays who she really is. The parallelism between the two women are that they want to be respected. “They call me Katherine‚ that do talk of me‚” Kate says to Petruchio‚ wanting him to respect her. Liza also asks Higgins for respect and is turned down when she says‚ Adams 2 “And I would like Professor Higgins to call me Miss Doolittle” (Shaw Act 5). These
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When the 54th Regiment heads down South‚ they are put under the command of Colonel James Montgomery. In this scene‚ the Union army‚ under Montgomery’s control‚ pillages Darien‚ Georgia‚ stealing valuables from within the houses‚ and eventually burning the town.16 Creighton’s essay‚ while about Confederate soldiers‚ is similar to this scene as the corruption of morality is exemplified in the description of “independent bands of horsemen… [who] used the Confederate invasion as an opportunity to terrorize
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As proven in Pygmalion‚ the novel by George Bernard Shaw and "Pygmalion"‚ the Greek myth‚ neither a creator‚ nor or anyone‚ should control the fate of another‚ be it a creation or simply another human\.. It is neither moral‚ nor possible to control another’s fate‚ and arguable that one cannot even control their own fate. These stories are filled with examples of the negative results that come of people attempting to control other humans. As Shaw would doubtlessly agree‚ a person attempting to control
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that Bianca does not like him‚ so he moves on. Petruchio and Katherine end up getting married and Petruchio ends up taming Katherine. Bianca and Lucentio end up eloping and go back to Padua where Baptista is. In the play Pygmalion written by Bernard Shaw is about a poor flower girl named Eliza Doolittle who
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training period a message arrived at the camp. This message was a warning that all blacks found by confederates would be put to death‚ as well as their commanding officers. As a result of this warning Colonel Shaw was accepting any soldier’s resignations on the following morning. That morning Shaw was not expecting to see very many soldiers remaining‚ but to his surprise most all of the men were still there. With this act the men illustrated great bravery‚ and a willingness to take a stand for their
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primarily highlights the definitive contrast between different levels of modern society. Though people generally accept that there are distinct social classes present in their lives‚ they rarely consider what makes this distinction so clear. In the play‚ Shaw illustrates and discusses the defining qualities of two entirely different strata‚ emphasizing their difference in speech. He also demonstrates that these differences are so dramatic‚ that a person from one level of society would feel lost in another
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Characters Raina Petkoff Raina‚ the heroine of the play‚ is the only child of Major Petkoff and Catherine Petkoff. She is a "romantic" and had romantic notions of love and war. Catherine Petkoff Catherine Petkoff‚ Raina’s mother‚ is a middle-aged affected woman‚ who wishes to pass off as a Viennese lady. She is "imperiously energetic" and good-looking. Louka Louka‚ a servant girl in the Petkoff household‚ is proud and looks down on servility. She is ambitious and wishes to rise in life. Nicola
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Cited: Goldman‚ James. The Lion in Winter. New York: Rand House Trade Paperbacks‚ 1981. Shakespeare‚ William. Hamlet. New York: Washington Square P‚ 1992. Shaw‚ George B. George Bernard Shaw ’s Plays. 2nd ed. New York: W.W Norton and Company‚ 2002. 203-285.
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Play analysis "Arms and the Man" By Bernard Shaw "Arms and the Man" starts with gunfire on a dark street in a small town. The romantic and willful Raina is about to begin her true-life adventure by sheltering the handsome fugitive Bluntschli‚ enemy of her equally handsome fiancé Sergius The setting of the play is in war-torn Bulgaria‚ and focuses not only on the romance between the young people of the play‚ but the atrocities that go on during war times and the ability of people not so very
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