Today I will be commenting on an excerpt from Pygmallion‚ written by Bernard Shaw. This play was first presented in 1912. Pygmalion is a play that focuses on Eliza Doolittle the main character and Higgins‚ the teacher. The storyline basically tells how Higgins teaches Eliza how to speak a proper English. The reason behind this was because the way someone spoke during the time Shaw wrote this play allowed people to define from what social class a person came from. B/c Eliza was from a lower class
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Pygmalion vs. My Fair LadyThe Academy Award-winning musical film My Fair Lady produced by George Cukor in 1964‚ was based on the play Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw written in 1913. Although‚ the basic story line and underlying themes are the same‚ there are a number of differences between the two famous works. The most pronounced difference is that My Fair Lady had songs added to the dialogue. Furthermore‚ Pygmalion deals with many of the social issues that were occurring during the Victorian
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Besides‚ marrying late also provides an opportunity to get to know your future companion better. We may often see in the news that many young people get married on impulse‚ which is‚ they don’t really get to know each other more. As George Bernard Shaw said‚ “Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?” When two people first met‚ and they had a crush on each other. In order to show the best of themselves‚ they tend to hide their
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A Farewell to Arms: Alcohol “Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life” (George Bernard Shaw). Throughout the young adult novel A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway‚ Frederick Henry‚ the protagonist‚ goes through numerous struggles‚ be it physical aches that he retains from the war‚ or troubles with his mind that are caused by his complicated relationship with Catherine Barkley. However‚ despite all of his struggles‚ Henry finds consolation in alcohol‚ consuming copious
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(Lit Review) Several studies have shown the importance of strategic communication in an organization. According to “The Strategic Communication Plan‚” written by Chris Hoover‚ “Strategic communication entails packaging a core message that reflects an agency’s overall strategy‚ values‚ purpose‚ and mission to persuade key stakeholders and enhance positioning.” Strategic communication is a process that involves much more than merely communicating with a co-worker. There are several steps in implementing
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ideas in any of Shaw’s other major works. It can be considerated an issue of language. This play was written by George Bernard Shaw in 1912‚ presents a comic Edwardian version of the classical myth about 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. George Bernard Shaw’s play Pygmalion is the story of Henry Higgins‚ a master phonetician‚ and his mischievous plot to pass a common flower
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S – Solitude Arguments – conflict‚ debate and disagreement - Arlene used 3 arguments (yung nasa test 3 pero yung nasa book 4) These arguments are: - Virginia Woolf – English writer who uses the “steam of consciousness” technique - George Bernard Shaw – an English playwright‚ said that Filipinos will go from being primitives to becoming exhausted civilization. - Imelda Marcos – former first lady of the Phil.‚ who was never seen reading a book from cover to cover get positions of power.
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In The Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin the character Louise Mallard has to be gently told that her husband has died tragically. Her sister Josephine tells her that her husband Bentley died in a railroad accident. Louise Mallard cries and mourns her husbands death but in the back of her mind‚ she is thinking she will finally be free. Although Bentley was always good to her‚ she can now have a life of her own without feeling oppressed. She feels that men and women oppress each other even if they
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Bernie Sanders Bernard Sanders was born in Brooklyn‚ New York on 8 September 1941 to Eli and Dorothy Sanders. His father is of Polish decent and immigrated to the United States when he was 17‚ with little education and money. Bernie once graduated moved to Vermont which is situated in the North Eastern part of the United States‚ there he worked in carpentry and documentary filmmaker. 1981 saw the start of his ever growing political career‚ he was elected as the mayor of Burlington‚ the largest
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"We must always think about things‚ and we must think about things as they are‚ and not as they are said to be" (George Bernard Shaw). These words define how people tend to only view things from the outside‚ without looking deeper. They do not look past the stereotypes to see things for what they really are. Such is the case of Lady Macbeth in William Shakespeare’s Macbeth. The audience generally views her as a Machiavellian villain. They do not see past the few corrupt incidents that she is involved
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