Literary analysis of ‘Pygmalion’ by Bernard Shaw Shaw’s cleverly crafted and highly entertaining play mixes the Pygmalion myth from Ovid’s Metamorphoses‚ with a Victorian-day twist. Shaw’s Pygmalion combines dimensional characters‚ an entertaining plotline and vibrant themes in a way that truly encapsulates Victorian high society. Set in high society‚ Pygmalion follows a bet made by two upper class gentlemen: phonetics teacher‚ Higgins; and his linguist friend Colonel Pickering. Higgins
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you watch Eliza Doolittle the flower girl learning how to speak and transform into a lady according to the standards of Professor Higgins her teacher. Colonel Pickering‚ pays for her lessons and oversees the experiment to see if Professor Higgins can take a common gutter snipe and transform her into a lady. Although‚ at the end of the play Eliza’s appearance and voice seem to reveal that she has become a lady with all the luxury materials and new social status‚ she still shows that Professor
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to enjoy real financial success in England and has remained his most popular work. The London premiere (1914) was sensational‚ the reviews like love letters‚ and the play has enjoyed success ever since. The filmed version (1938) and the musical My Fair Lady (1956‚ filmed in 1964) were equally successful and only added to the stature of the original. Despite its seemingly plastic adaptability‚ Pygmalion is actually a carefully crafted play‚ a well-made play with a classically structured plot. It
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Henry Higgins‚ a voluble professor of phonetics‚ who undertakes in a wanger with his colleague Colonel Pickering to turn a cockney flower-girl‚ Eliza Doolittle‚ how to speak English in an upper-class manner and transform her as to pass her off for a lady. In one sense she is the very antithesis of Galatea‚ since she starts a child of
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“Ahyee‚ bəyee‚ cəyee‚ dəyee” ~ Eliza‚ Act II - attract the speculation of Henry Higgins‚ a professor of phonetics. As a bet with Colonel Pickering‚ a fellow expert in the field of phonetics‚ he takes the challenge of molding Eliza into a well mannered lady fit for nobility. With much sass and often strong reluctance‚ her accent is corrected and her appearance is made elegant. She proves herself at the ambassador’s party where her beauty and poise makes her the talk of the evening‚ thus winning the bet
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something that you might have read in your English 1104 class. The movie might remind you of the play‚ Pygmalion‚ written by George Bernard Shaw. It is the story of a phonetics professor who trains an ordinary flower girl to act like a sophisticated young lady. It is based off a Greek legend where a man named Pygmalion wanted to create the perfect statue. He made her so perfect that he fell into love with his own creation. The Makeover has a very similar plot to that of Pygmalion‚ where a young woman attempts
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Pygmalion: Professor Higgins’ Philosophy Professor Higgins is seen throughout Pygmalion as a very rude man. While one may expect a well educated man‚ such as Higgins‚ to be a gentleman‚ he is far from it. Higgins believes that how you treated someone is not important‚ as long as you treat everyone equally. The great secret‚ Eliza‚ is not having bad manners or good manners or any other particular sort of manners‚ but having the same manner for all human souls: in short‚ behaving
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Film Review: “My Fair Lady” “My Fair Lady” is a classic 1964 film produced by Jack Warner and James Katz and Directed by George Cukor. The film’s protagonist‚ an ambitious Phonetician‚ Professor Higgins‚ promises to transform the life and socio-economic status of a poor flower girl‚ the female protagonist‚ Eliza‚ by teaching her to speak Standard English and the ‘proper’ way to behave. He aspires to “change her into a different human being by creating a new speech for her.” By doing this he suggests
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Discuss the different ways of representing class conflicts. Pygmalion‚ Bernard Shaw‚ 1914 My Fair Lady‚ George Cukor‚ 1964 “As the purpose of comedy is to correct the vices of men‚ I see no reason why anyone should be exempt.” This famous quotation of French playwright Molière proves how powerfully theater and social criticism are linked‚ and how in its different genres‚ drama as well as comedy‚ theater can‚ and maybe must‚ be a way of communicating and expressing the human and society’s flaws
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My Fair Lady Reflection In the movie‚ there are some gender issues. In 1970s‚ women receive the unfair treatments. They could not live in the sex equality lives. Men always thought women were born for marrying with them‚ and their wives had to service them as the God. At that time‚ men usually went out for work‚ but women should stay home and do the household chores. In this way‚ men oppressed women indirectly. I think it is the sexism; males should not have the prejudice to women. Until now‚ these
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