Juliette Eghterafi Mrs. Headley English 10 Honors Essay Three The story of cinderella is most known for the transformation of a poor sweet lady into a princess. In many ways pygmalion is the same as cinderella. The only difference is that pygmalion has three characters undergoing transformations. Eliza could be seen as cinderella‚ because she goes and becomes a young lady in fancy clothes marrying a gentleman. Eliza undergoes the most dramatic transformation due to her having to learn
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Pygmalion‚ perhaps Shaw’s best-loved play‚ tells of Professor Henry Higgins attempts to transform the poor‚ Cockney flower-girl‚ Eliza Doolittle‚ into a lady by changing her speech. Higgins hears her speaking one night as she sells flowers‚ and he says that‚ within three months‚ he can change her speech so dramatically that she will be accepted in the highest society. The next morning‚ she shows up at his door‚ offering to pay for lessons because she wants to run her own flower shop. The lessons
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Feminism in Pygmalion George Bernard Shaw‟s Pygmalion has been a play that gained academic discussions in various perspectives. Nevertheless‚ its feminist view has been the most discussed throughout the years. Having been compared to famous fairy tales such as Cinderella‚ the actual legend Pygmalion‚ Frankenstein‚ the readers and viewers of the play can clearly see some modified story lines. This paper will intend to depict the aspect of feminism through George Bernard Shaw‟s play‚ Pygmalion. The original
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Transformations in Ovid Transformations from one shape or form into another are the central theme in Ovid’s Metamorphoses. The popularity and timelessness of this work stems from the manner of story telling. Ovid takes stories relevant to his culture and time period‚ and weaves them together into one work with a connecting theme of transformation throughout. The thread of humor that runs through Metamorphoses is consistent with the satire and commentary of the work. The theme is presented
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! Caterpillar to Butterfly The play Pygmalion starts with Bernard Shaw showing a common “poor girl” (1‚12) Eliza in poverty selling flowers on the streets in England. Eliza is shown standing up to a man who is taking detailed notes on her vocabulary. This is significant as you see her fierce personality right at the beginning of the play. Throughout the play‚ you watch Eliza Doolittle the flower girl learning how to speak and transform into a lady according to the standards of Professor Higgins
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1. How are the characters constructed through stage directions in this Act? Shaw’s use of stage directions are very specific and didactic. In Act 1‚ it allows the audience to get a basic introduction of who the characters are. The mother and the daughter is higher up in terms of social from the clothes they are described to be wearing. The flower girl is wearing ragged clothes showing that she doesn’t take care of herself properly. 2. How is the theme of status / class explored in this
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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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hypocritical. “And I reckon them that are good must suffer for it the same as them that are bad.”― William Faulkner. Faulkner’s ideology is prevalent in the story The Metamorphoses‚ by Ovid‚ as the poet tells of the god Jupiter destroying all man kind (except for Deucalion and Pyrrha) because of the actions of one‚ Lycaon. Ovid describes Jupiter’s destruction as an effort to protect all the gods who do not live in the heavens. However‚ Jupiter’s actions are not justified in any way presented in the book
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tale of the ages amongst the two storytellers as well. These similarities and differences allow the deciphering of the tales to hold differences in the value of the ages of mankind. Raising key similarities in the Gold‚ Silver and Bronze Ages both Ovid and Hesiod tell a different meaning on how the ages that precede them affect the rest of mankind. The Heroic and Iron Ages are important in the continuation of both stories‚ the tale of creation and mankind‚ and the view of the world to the Greeks
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Characters sketches Professor Henry Higgins - Henry Higgins is a professor of phonetics who plays Pygmalion to Eliza Doolittle’s Galatea. He is the author of Higgins’ Universal Alphabet‚ believes in concepts like visible speech‚ and uses all manner of recording and photographic material to document his phonetic subjects‚ reducing people and their dialects into what he sees as readily understandable units. He is an unconventional man‚ who goes in the opposite direction from the rest of society
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