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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Pygmalion #9 Eliza and Professor Higgins meet in an awkward situation. Professor Higgins is studying people’s language and he noticed that Eliza speaks quite unique. Eliza is a poor girl who is selling flowers wearing poor clothes. Higgins also meets Colonel (Col.) Pickering in the beginning. They both have great amount of money and they give very little to the flower girl Eliza when she asked for it. Eliza isn’t stupid‚ but just in proverty. She over heard the time Higgins and Col. Pickering would
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years ago‚ men had little respect for women because of their gender. Females were not given the rights they deserve. They were controlled by their fathers‚ then handed straight over to their husbands. Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House and Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion have occurrences that show similarities between the two female protagonists‚ Nora Helmer and Eliza Doolittle. Nora and Eliza are comparable in several different ways because both go through experiences with powerful outcomes ultimately transforming
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Productivity Management PM – Q7 Self-Fufilling Prophecy or Pygmalion effect and the 4 factors plus its application. The problem with productivity measurements – especially in measuring a company’s workforce efficiency‚ is that they do not take into account other factors relating to the way people work. This means that elements such as employee’s initiatives‚ their flexibility‚ teamwork and adaptability are not incorporated in the measures of input. As such‚ the calculation of productivity
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The play Pygmalion by Bernard Shaw has many different characters that bring much to the play due to their backgrounds‚ feelings‚ and intentions. One of these remarkable and famous characters is Eliza Doolittle. How Eliza comes across‚ how she is treated by others‚ and how she changes are what make Eliza such a wonderful character. Firstly‚ Eliza comes across as a sassy‚ smart-mouthed flower girl with horrible English‚ and is transformed to a still sassy‚ figure fit to consort with nobility. She
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Rags to Riches Eliza Doolittle is a main character in the play Pygmalion. She is a poor girl from the streets of London who turns out to be a brilliant and beautiful young woman. Eliza Doolittle uses her skillful thinking to pretend to whine and moan to make people believe or help her in different ways. She is very ambitious seeing as she will suffer to lessons with the rude Henry Higgins to become a lady in a flower shop. Pygmalion is a play written by George Bernard Shaw. Eliza Doolittle does not
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The scene shifts to Higgins’ laboratory in his home in Wimpole Street. It is eleven o’clock the next morning‚ and Higgins has been giving Pickering some demonstrations of the types of equipment that he uses in recording sounds which can then be studied at leisure in a scientific manner. As Higgins finishes his demonstration‚ Pickering admits that he is impressed‚ but he hasn’t been able to follow more than half of what Higgins has shown him. Mrs. Pearce‚ the housekeeper‚ enters to announce that there
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In this essay I will be comparing and contrasting the way in which two different authors portray femininity in their respective dramatic texts. The two works I am using are Pygmalion by Bernard Shaw and Medea by Euripides. I will be looking at how the way men and women are portrayed can affect the way we interpret the texts‚ and showing that femininity isn’t necessarily a trait restricted just to women. I believe that femininity reflects expected female behaviour. There are certain traits which
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Alfred Doolittle’s Lower Class Representation in Pygmalion Realist author George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion challenges England’s upper class to realize the pointlessness of their flamboyant lifestyle and pokes fun at this society. Shaw writes to expose the differences in the lifestyles of the social classes and how different characters react to their status. Shaw uses Alfred Doolittle and his social status to depict a character that freely accepts his status and his reaction to eventually moving up
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contributions to this area in literature but it remains surprising that male writers have been able to perceptively portray women above their previously subordinate positions in society. In George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion‚ we see the main character‚ Eliza Doolittle transformed from an ill-mannered Cockney flower girl into a high society debutante with the help of some elocution lessons provided by Mr Henry Higgins‚ a professor of phonetics and financed by his well-travelled friend‚ Colonel Pickering. Higgins
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