6. Comment on Pygmalion as a Shavian play. Pygmalion is a classic Shavian play in as far as it shows his feelings about the falsity of the class system and his belief that all humans are essentially equal and privilege should play no part in life. Higgins is also a very Shavian character with his inspired logic and bombastic deliver. Like all great Shavian drama Pygmalion is a richly complex play. It combines a central story of the transformation of a young woman with elements of myth‚ fairy tale
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THE VOICE Themes- Explore how Hardy powerfully express loss of love in The Voice. The voice is a poem written by Thomas Hardy to remember his departed wife Emma‚ he is moarning her death in this poem. The voice portrays the theme of Nostalgia as Hardy is trying to cope with Emma’s loss. Hardy portrays feelings of misery and powerfully expresses loss of love in this poem through the use of literary devices and imagery. The poem consists of four stanzas which are constructed around
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the way values have been maintained and changed. Discuss with reference to the text from the past and it’s appropriation. The intended audience of both Pygmalion‚ by George Bernard Shaw and Pretty Woman‚ directed by Garry Marshall was the mass of society at the time of composition. This is seen through the choice of the form of each text‚ Pygmalion is a play because in the early twentieth centaury this was the popular way of spreading ideas and Pretty Woman is a Hollywood film‚ a current form of mass
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PLOT STRUCTURE ANALYSIS Pygmalion is a primarily Shavian reworking of Ovid’s Metamorphoses with undertones of Cinderella. Romance and satire dominate both the play’s plot as well as style. Shaw takes a strong central situation--the transformation of a common flower girl into a lady--and surrounds it with superficial trimmings. There is technical innovation in the plot structure since Shaw‚ under the influence of Ibsen‚ replaces the stock Victorian formula of exposition‚ situation and unraveling
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something through a feminist criticism lens‚ it means they are looking at the movie or book to try and find parts that speak on women and their position in the world. Throughout Pygmalion‚ Pretty Woman‚ and My Fair Lady‚ there are multiple messages that can be understood about women and their role in society. Pygmalion‚ an old Greek myth‚ has the least to say about women‚ but there is still something to be learned. When the story says the women are prostitutes‚ it is showing women as scandalous
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designates the excitement‚ vigor‚ and advancement behind women who have exploded out the confines of domestic duty and into the work force of Britain by sidelining them with the newest ideas’. However‚ Shaw is suppressing women; the main character in Pygmalion is Eliza Doolittle is a poor‚ young woman and Professor Higgins is influenced by a bet to turn into a fine young woman by teaching her to speak correctly. Although Higgins is giving her the chance to learn how to speak like a lady‚ it is not through
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SUMMARY – Act 1-5 Act 1 All characters (except Mrs Higgins and Alfred Doolittle) are introduced. Eliza‚ the poor flower girl‚ gets knocked over by Freddy and makes a scene‚ which attracts the attention of phonetics enthusiast‚ Henry Higgins. Henry Higgins insults her lack of education and class‚ which also attracts an audience. Mr. Higgins is acquainted with Colonel Pickering who has come from India to work with him. At the end of the scene Higgins gives Eliza enough money for her to get into
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In Pygmalion‚ George Bernard Shaw utilizes his protagonist Eliza to represent not only a gender or social role; but more in particular‚ how quickly those can all change. Although judged and cast as inferior for her job selling flowers alongside her almost indecipherable language‚ Eliza is completely transformed into a lady. Yet‚ interestingly it is not her actions that make her feel lady-like‚ but it is in how she is treated where she feels the most like a woman. Shaw becomes the “watchdog of
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Weighted-Average Model (WAM; Kenny‚ 1991)‚ and includes the components of normative and distinctive accuracy (Biesanz & Human‚ 2010). While normative accuracy refers to the impression of an individual personality in comparison to an average personality‚ distinctive accuracy refers to the way in which a perceiver recognizes the individual nature of a specific target’s personality (McDonald & Letzring‚ 2016). Distinctive accuracy is obtained by accounting for the differences in self-reports of personality
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