This summer I read the book Pygmalion written by Bernard Shaw. The genre of the book is fiction and realism. Pygmalion is about a flower girl‚ Eliza Doolittle‚ who meets Henry Higgins‚ who is a professor. Eliza hears Higgins bet Colonel Pickering‚ Higgins friend‚ that he could pass Eliza off as a duchess at a party. Eliza takes up his offer and learns how to speak English perfectly. Many complications come along the way as the story progresses. In the end‚ Eliza leaves Higgins house and marries Freddy
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Shaw’s Pygmalion George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion is a play that has become a classic in today’s world. It is a retelling of an ancient story‚ of the same name‚ by the Roman poet‚ Ovid‚ in which a sculptor falls in love with a statue he carved. In Shaw’s story‚ Henry Higgins‚ an expert in phonetics‚ happens upon a poor flower girl with awful English and street manners named Eliza Doolittle. Throughout the course of the play Higgins transforms her into an elegant independent woman. The play tracks
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In the stories Pygmalion and The Makeover‚ a lower class individual who aspires to have a higher position in his or her career prompts two upper-class citizens for their assistance. Even though the Pygmalion and The Makeover display numerous similarities‚ the two have apparent disparities. In Pygmalion‚ the story began with a rainy day‚ and Eliza was trying to sell flowers on the street when Freddy bumped into her from behind. Eliza then began to shout at Freddy in her unorthodox dialect‚ and he
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She’s All That is the latest example of a series of movies based on the Pygmalion myth‚ an occurrence that illustrates Hollywood’s long fascination with this myth. The original Pygmalion story is found in Ovid. Pygmalion is the story of a gifted young sculpter who is a woman hater. Ironically‚ the sculpture that most fascinates him and that he puts all of his genius into is a statue of a woman. The statue is exquisite‚ but Pygmalion wasn’t content. He kept tweaking the statue‚ working on it until it
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Bernard Shaw Pygmalion A Romance in Five Acts 1. Summary of the Play‚ page 2 2. Introduction and Short Analysis of the Main Character‚ page 4 3. Interpretation‚ page 5 4. Additional Information‚ page 7 5. Literature and Links‚ page 8 1. Summary London at 11.15 a.m.‚ on a rainy summer day. Everybody’s running for shelter because of the torrential storm. A bunch of people ist gathering in St. Pauls church‚ looking outside and waiting for the rain to stop. Among the
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“Pygmalion”‚ by George Bernard Shaw‚ is a modern metamorphosis of the story Pygmalion‚ legendary sculptor and king of Cyprus‚ who fell in love with his own statue of Aphrodite. At his prayer‚ Aphrodite brought the statue to life as Galatea. In his own play‚ Shaw reveals a twist in the Greek myth‚ where by he transformers a flower girl into a duchess through the power of speech. The author uses this mythology to portray aspects of Victorian England common social class classification. The author uses
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Dean Assenza Pygmalion Synthesis Essay Outline Introduction: One’s culture is a key part of their identity. Culture can reside in a nation‚ family‚ ethnicity‚ a religion‚ etc. Mahatma Gandhi once said‚ “A Nation’s culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people”. One’s culture is usually seen through the religion and traditions of their nation; therefore this influences their everyday lives and their behavior.. Culture influences one’s appearance or the way they talk‚ but also
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The Pygmalion Effect Interestingly enough‚ ancient Greek mythology creates an archetype for a present day social phenomenon with an artist named Pygmalion. He carved a perfect woman from Ivory and fell in love with his own creation‚ naming it Galatea. Pygmalion desperately wished she was alive. With goddess Venus’s blessings and his true belief in his creation‚ Galatea was brought to life. Though the name originates from this allegory‚ the more precise nature of the Pygmalion effect is demonstrated
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British Literature Honors Feminist Analysis of Pygmalion Women have not always been treated fairly and righteously. Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw is very effective in showing the unjust ways in which women were treated about a century ago. Throughout the play‚ Eliza Doolittle‚ a young and poor flower girl‚ is not always respected. Certain male characters‚ such as Henry Higgins and Colonel Pickering‚ are responsible for this behavior. Pygmalion illustrates how in England‚ during the early
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06/07/2012 Writer’s Workshop Bill Rubenstein Pygmalion Movie Review Based off of Shaw’s 1913 stage comedy‚ Pygmalion is the story of two mismatched lovers Henry Higgins and Eliza Doolittle. The story centers on Henry Higgins’ mission to change Eliza Doolittle from a street vendor to a lady. It would be frivolous to comment on the treatment of women‚ as we are forced to take into account the period in which this play was written. Pygmalion is just another reflection of the objectification
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