accompanied by several other themes‚ we see Eliza Doolittle of Pygmalion and Edna Pontellier of The Awakening transform dramatically. Comparably‚ these women are quite opposite in almost every way but their stories posses many parallel threads. Bernard Shaw and Kate Chopin affectively apply the struggle for change‚ independence‚ and self-discovery in these two works. Eliza Doolittle’s transformation is only external to begin with. She starts as an uncultivated ragamuffin selling flowers on
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English II 3 December 2013 Paper III Self-evaluation is critical to being your best self. In Pygmalion‚ George Bernard Shaw depicts Eliza Doolittle as becoming highly motivated to address her issues in hopes of a better life through the help of phonetician Henry Higgins and his associate Colonel Pickering. While this is a quality Eliza holds‚ Higgins does not. Being born into the upper class and having become extremely skilled in his speech profession‚ his manners lack tenfold. This is not something
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Drama‚ A.R. Yesufu‚ ed. Nigeria: National Open University of Nigeria‚ 2008. Milne‚ Ira Mark‚ ed. Literary Movements for Students‚ 2nd ed. USA Gale‚ 2009. Scholes‚ R. and C. H. Klaus. Elements of Drama. New York: Oxford University Press‚1971. Shaw‚ George Bernard‚ Candida (USA: An Electronic Classics Series Publication‚ 2003). Yesufu‚A.R.‚ed. Elements of Drama. Nigeria: National Open University of Nigeria‚ 2008.
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Samantha Belew Professor Marc Muneal English 1102 27 September 2011 Pygmalion is a play written by George Bernard Shaw illustrating the effect language has on each character‚ from how others perceive them to what they are capable or incapable of doing in their lives. In society during that time‚ just as now‚ your accent and the way you speak can tell a great deal about your background and where you are from. But more so in the story of Pygmalion does the accent and the way they speak‚ grammatically
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Medea Medea is a character existing outside of the typical Greek value and social systems that existed in the Greek Polis’s at the time of the play’s inception. She is strong willed‚ powerful‚ intelligent‚ cunning‚ volatile and independent. She possesses many traits and characteristics reserved and associated with Greek heroes in other plays common at the time. It could be possible to assume that a typical Greek audience of the time (likely predominantly male) would find this character absurd
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The Creation of Johari Window The Creation of Johari Window Ever since the creation of life‚ humans have fought with one and other‚ bickering‚ and talking behind each other’s backs. This is especially true in the workplace‚ who has not had an argument with a coworker? It seems like no one has anything nice to say about each other. Maybe people do have nice things to say‚ but the problem is finding a way to say them. There must be a way to improve this everlasting problem‚ which two men set out
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A Manipulative Speaker: Marc Antony’s Funeral Oration George Bernard Shaw once said “Words are the postage stamps delivering the object for you to unwrap.” After the death of Caesar‚ Brutus and Antony give a funeral speech for Caesar. Both are excellent orators‚ and convince the crowds very well. However‚ Brutus made Antony promise that he “shall not in your funeral speech blame us‚ but speak all good you can devise of Caesar.” (pg. 106-7‚ 247-8). Marc Antony uses many persuasive devices such as
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the 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
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degrade humanity and for what reason? The motives of Charles Dickens‚ Bernard Shaw and Thomas Hardy for presenting humanity as degraded‚ through their language‚ differ significantly. While the texts‚ which when taken as isolated pieces of literature contain mutual themes of reduction and belittlement‚ could be viewed as works produced by three similar authors‚ they are in fact written to very different ends. Dickens and Shaw are paradoxically great believers in ‘humanity’‚ but find themselves disillusioned
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