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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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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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 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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What’s Misogyny? Misogyny means a hatred of women. In every country misogyny happens. Women are insulted‚ discarded or torched by men. In today’s world whatever the men do is everything fine‚ and if women do the same thing then women were kicked out from the house. Misogyny takes place at each corner of country. There are many pictures‚ cartoons‚ magazines‚ etc publishing year that show many examples of misogyny. One of the examples of misogyny was a picture of two dogs on the cover page of
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QUESTION: Texts often represent women as victims in a patriarchal society. How are women represented in two of the poems set for study?During the late 20th Century women remained constrained by gender ideals which they were expected to conform to; subservience‚ piety and beauty. This domineering state of inferiority experienced by these women is expressed and challenged by both Mary Elizabeth Coleridge and Amy Lowell through their exploration of the victimisation of women in a patriarchal society
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1. How are the characters constructed through stage directions in this Act? Shaw’s use of stage directions are very specific and didactic. In Act 1‚ it allows the audience to get a basic introduction of who the characters are. The mother and the daughter is higher up in terms of social from the clothes they are described to be wearing. The flower girl is wearing ragged clothes showing that she doesn’t take care of herself properly. 2. How is the theme of status / class explored in this
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’Let four captains bear Hamlet like a soldier to the stage‚ For he was likely‚ had he been put on‚ To have proved most royal’. At the end of Hamlet‚Fortinbras claims that had Hamlet been alive to rule as King of Denmark‚ he would have been a good king. Oedipus is King of Thebes in Sophocles’ Oedipus Tyrannas‚ and Hamlet is (for most of the play heir to the Danish throne in Hamlet. With reference to their royal positions in Thebes and Denmark‚ compare and contrast the characters of Hamlet and
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