millionairesses how to speak English: the best looking women in the world. I’m seasoned. They might as well be blocks of wood. I might as well be a block of wood. It’s- (38). I’m very curious about how Henry Higgins‚ in George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion‚ feels about his profession and how this translates to his interpretation of society. Higgins‚ a professor of phonetics‚ ultimately enters into a bet in which he is assigned the task of teaching a poor‚ uneducated yet determined girl from the streets
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George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion addresses the discourse of education (linguistic retraining in particular) and its interrelationship with other discourses‚ such as class‚ and the transformation of individual and social self. It also deals with the dynamics of teacher-student power relationship in the context of education discourse. Believing that education should produce humane and responsible citizens instead of docile slaves‚ Shaw displays the evils of an incompetent education system. This article
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The Misogynistic Henry Higgins The key to understanding George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion lies in understanding the power struggle between the “haves” and “have-nots” – specifically the active and intentional disenfranchisement of women at the turn of the 20th century. At the core of Pygmalion there is a focus on the societal inequities of the day‚ with Shaw presenting society’s treatment of women as property without rights and with little understanding of their surroundings or place in society.
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His use of the motifs of loss and survival especially help convey the theme. At various times throughout A Long Way Gone‚ Ishmael loses the people that matter most to him. He loses his parents when their village is attacked‚ his brother and friends due to the chaos of the war‚ he loses his second group of friends when he becomes
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altogether suppressed and chained-down gender role. Women do not have any power‚ and they are in submission to the men’s desires at all times. Blanche is characterized as essentially hopeless without a man‚ and Mitch dictates their relationship. The major theme for female characters through the production is that they are weak individuals who do not possess the capacity to be worth much more than a reproductive machine and cook. A Streetcar Named Desire Fantasy is used as a coping mechanism until reality
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Flowers For Algernon Theme Paragraph In the realistic fiction‚ Flowers For Algernon‚ the author‚ Daniel Keyes‚ tried to convey the theme that a person shouldn’t change who they are for someone else. Charlie’s relationship with Alice represented this theme because one of the reasons Charlie signed up for the experiment was because he wanted to impress her. He thought if he became smarter‚ Alice would be proud of him‚ and he would be able to speak to her about smart-people stuff. Although she was
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George Bernard Shaw’s play Pygmalion sends me a few messages that he was either meaning to get out to his readers‚ or not. After reading the play‚ I felt that he was trying to deliver the message that finding one’s personal identity is of utmost importance‚ the importance of proper phonetics in society‚ and in a way perhaps illustrates an insecurity that Shaw has within his own love life. Shaw delivers the message that finding one’s personal identity is of utmost importance while also conveying
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came from. Chapter 2: Eliza’s father‚ Alfred Doolittle was thrown out of the pub as he hasn’t got enough money to pay for his drinks. Eliza gives him some money. About the author My Fair Lady was originally a stage musical based on the play Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw. Alan Jay Lerner adapted George Bernard Shaw’s play for the musical My Fair Lady. Alan Jay Lerner’s words for the songs use many of the spoken words in Shaw’s play. This was partly because Lerner‚ by law‚ had to stay as
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