The Source of the Title: The Legend of Pygmalion and Galatea Shaw took his title from the ancient Greek legend of the famous sculptor named Pygmalion who could find nothing good in women‚ and‚ as a result‚ he resolved to live out his life unmarried. However‚ he carved a statue out of ivory that was so beautiful and so perfect that he fell in love with his own creation. Indeed‚ the statue was so perfect that no living being could possibly be its equal. Consequently‚ at a festival‚ he prayed
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Difference between historical cost and fair value accounting In order to make the most profitable and rational decisions entity’s stakeholders have to evaluate organisation’s financial statements. Today’s world of rapidly changing prices has made it difficult to estimate what something is actually worth. Thus leading to debates at what price – historical costing price or market value – assets and liabilities should be reported. Therefore‚ before making any evaluations about reported transactions
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The social hierarchy is an unavoidable topic in the play pygmalion by george bernard shaw. Shaw includes members of all social classes from the lowest (Liza) to the servant class (Mrs. Pearce) to the middle class (Doolittle after his inheritance) to the genteel poor (the Eynsford Hills) to the upper class (Pickering and the Higgins). Shaw highlighted the errors in people’s ideas of how the lower classes lived‚ and highlighted all the social prejudice‚ including stereotypical views of women and of
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Pygmalion #9 Eliza and Professor Higgins meet in an awkward situation. Professor Higgins is studying people’s language and he noticed that Eliza speaks quite unique. Eliza is a poor girl who is selling flowers wearing poor clothes. Higgins also meets Colonel (Col.) Pickering in the beginning. They both have great amount of money and they give very little to the flower girl Eliza when she asked for it. Eliza isn’t stupid‚ but just in proverty. She over heard the time Higgins and Col. Pickering would
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women is one who helps her husband and encourages him to do the right thing. In this case‚ Lady Macbeth is very different she is encouraging her husband to do the wrong thing so she can become the queen. The witches plant the seed when they tell him “that shalt be king hereafter‚” and Lady Macbeth than waters it. In this story we see that Lady Macbeth is power hungry‚ and very clever. The witches are similar to Lady Macbeth because they influence her to do such bad deeds to get the crown. The witches
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The day the young man is put in the arena has come‚ and his life is put in the princesses hands. There are two massive doors that have either a lady or a tiger behind them. For only the princess knows which has the lady or the tiger. The time has come for her to decide which door will be his fate‚ she will choose the door revealing the lady. The princess is in love with the lower class man‚ which is not allowed by her powerful dad. Knowing how cruel her father can be towards people she fears what
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coming. Macbeth was written in 1606‚ a time period during which people believed in witchcraft. As a consequence‚ Shakespeare emphasizes on this belief. The use of parallelism “Fair is foul‚ and foul is fair” suggests an idea that the witches want to alter the good and bad. Furthermore‚ it implies that anything that is fair is always foul and vice versa. The witches correspond to the symbol of darkness‚ which additionally creates an unsettling environment as they were assumed to initiate thunder and
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In Shakespeare’s play‚ MacBeth‚ the theme of “Fair is foul ‚ and foul is fair” is a predominant theme. The meaning of the theme is that the line between good and evil are blurred. For example‚ is as Duncan arrives to MacBeth’s dwelling he says‚ “This castle hath a pleasant seat. The air nimbly and sweet recommends itself unto our gentle sense”(1.6.1-3)Act Ⅰ‚ scene ⅵ‚ line 1-3). This indicates that the caste is pleasant‚; but in reality it’s where his worst nightmare will happen‚ his death. Duncan
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In the play Macbeth by William Shakespeare false appearances seam to appear quite often in the play with many characters. The weird sisters‚ Lady Macbeth‚ Macbeth and even Malcolm put on a fake personality. The main thing to remember is even though someone may seam to be a way doesn’t necessarily mean that they will not try to kill you in your sleep. Appearance is not every thing‚ just like you are told to judge a book by its cover. You never know how things can unravel when getting to know a person
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“Fair is foul” “Macbeth” by William Shakespeare is a play in which the central character‚ Macbeth‚ is vulnerable as well as heroic. Before Macbeth even appears in the play we learn of his vulnerability through the witches‚ who plan to meet Macbeth after the day’s battle; “When shall we three meet again in thunder‚ lighting or in rain?” “When the hurlyburly’s done‚ when the battles lost and won.” “That will be ere the set of sun.” “Where the place?” “Upon the heath.” “There to meet with
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