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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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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