Comparative Study Essay (Pretty Woman/Pygmalion) The comparative study of Pygmalion by Bernard Shaw and Pretty Woman by Gary Marshall has enhanced my perception of the shared concerns of the two texts. The representation however‚ is altered by the differing political‚ historical and social context of the time period of production. Both composers have illuminated the central concerns of the transformations of their female protagonists; Eliza and Vivian from rags to riches while also exploring and
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the overall themes of the works should be the same and the movie should remain true to mid-weighted aspects of the original source. George Cukor’s My Fair Lady shares a practically identical plot with its source material‚ George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion. This being said‚ certain aspects of the overall story are brought to the forefront or hidden through My Fair Lady’s use of song and dance. When the audience examines the small but important differences in the scripts of both works‚ it is evident
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The two main characters in Pygmalion are Eliza Doolittle and Professor Henry Higgins. The story has many themes‚ but the subject of the play I am exploring now is the way two unconnected people can change each other. The question of who triumphs at the end can be answered in many ways. At face value‚ and probably in his mind‚ Higgins triumphs he passes Eliza off as a duchess and wins his bet. He does not realise how sneering and abusive he is of Eliza and therefore for a lot of the play she feels
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and reworks the main source. Shakespeare’s concentration was psycological; he appeared to be more interested in exploring the lover’s mental state under the stress of emotion and desire which entail produced an extraordinary drawing-out of action. Ovid spends about eighty-five lines on Adonis‚ beginning with a brisk description of his birth and ending with an equally succinct account of his metamorphoses into an anemone flower. Shakespeare manages to devote almost twelve hundred lines to the last
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How do you respond to the presentation of Professor Henry Higgins in ‘Pygmalion’? Professor Henry Higgins is one of the main characters in Pygmalion‚ written by Bernard Shaw. Eliza Doolittle and Henry Higgins meet one rainy night in Covent Garden. We soon find out that Eliza Doolittle is a common flower girl by the way she speaks‚ ‘Garn. Oh do buy a flower off me Captain.‘(very cockney dialect) and the man who is taking notes of very thing she says is Professor Henry Higgins. He teaches Eliza
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Pygmalion written by Bernard Shaw‚ was first performed on stage with Rex Harrison as Henry Higgins. The reception of the audience during the play was of utmost disappointment due to the non romantic ending of the play‚ even though that was Shaws initial intentions. My fair Lady on the other hand is a musical based on Pygmalion‚ and the movie was shot in 1964 by director George Cukor. Although there are numerous similarities between musical and play such as the character interactions or how both of
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The Adventure of Huckleberry Finn Differences between the movie and the novel: In the movie Huck’s fortune amounts to $600; in the novel‚ it is $6000. The conmen are tarred and feathered in the film; in the novel‚ they escape and are tarred and feathered later. The Grangerford son that Huck befriends is Billy; in the novel‚ he is named Buck. In the movie the Grangerford’s feud with the Shepardsons is 30 years old; in the novel it is 20. Tom Sawyer is not mentioned in the film whereas in
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gardens and house entrances. Priapus What is the mythological inspiration for Educating Rita‚ Pretty Woman‚ and My Fair Lady? It is based on the Pygmalion myth. The story of Pygmalion is most famously told by the Roman poet _____. Ovid The first operatic success of Franz von Suppe was The Beautiful Galatea. Who was Galatea? Statue created by Pygmalion and Venus brought to life Cinyras slept with his daughter _____ without knowing her identity. (This story is one of the episodes in Mary Zimmerman’s
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Marsyas [Met. 6.382]‚ Daphne [Met. 1.452]‚ Pygmalion [Met. 10.243]‚ Morpheus [Met. 11.633]‚ Byblis [Met. 9.454] and Philomela [Met. 6.451] we encounter a number of contradictory representations of sublunary artistry‚ equally facilitating and purging the dolour of the human condition‚ with both aspects frequently highlighted
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