Analysis Of George Bernard Shaw 's ' My Fair Lady '

‘Marrying Ameera’ is a novel written by Rosanne Hawke and it features a teenage girl called Ameera who is facing difficulties because of her father Hassan and his Pakistani cultural beliefs. Her father being greatly influenced by the Pakistani culture and beliefs wants his daughter to follow it too without any disagreeance. This makes him the creator of Ameera’s difficulties. Whilst Ameera lives in the Australian culture, she is making Hassan worried and Hassan is making decisions for Ameera, based on his beliefs and culture. Culture is also to blame for creating Ameera’s difficulties because honour is accomplished by the following culture.

Freedom of thinking, a different way of seeing things can be hard for some. In George Bernard Shaw’s Saint Joan, the Inquisitor gives a powerful speech, which demonizes Joan and her heresy. The Inquisitor uses his speech to persuade the church of Joan of the arc’s heresy. In his entreaty, he uses many rhetorical strategies such as ethos, pathos, and logos. He even uses similes and analogies to make his case. The Inquisitor keeps an intense and serious tone throughout the speech, while the situation being a grave one. He makes the plea a dying matter as if Joan killed someone.

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Stephanie Coontz started off her article about the 50th anniversary of the publication of Betty Friedan’s international best seller, “The Feminine Mystique”, which was written about the women’s movement of the 1960s. What Coontz is trying to explain is that gender equality is not stalled, but “It has hit a wall”. Her title is the opposite of what she is trying to write about in the article. At first she talked about women’s rights back when the book was written. Instead of blaming the beliefs of gender roles from individuals, she points the finger at the economy and the work-family policies as the major problems to gender equality. She explains the gender equality stalled during 1990s and the first few years of the 2000s. She brought into text the usual statics, “the percentage of Americans preferring the male breadwinner/female homemaker family model actually rose to 40 percent from 34 percent. Between 1997 and 2007, the number of full-time working mothers who said they would prefer to work part time increased to 60 percent from 48 percent. In 1997, a quarter of stay-at-home mothers said full-time work would be ideal. By 2007, only 16 percent of stay-at-home mothers wanted to work full time.”(Coontz) She also talked about how 70 percent of men and women want an egalitarian relationship and how the demand of work has intensified.

Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw is a play that shows a great change in the character Eliza Doolittle. As Eliza lives in poverty, she sells flowers to earn her living. Eliza does not have an education. This shows through the way that she does not have the most proper way of speaking. This happens through when Eliza is speaking to the other characters when she meets then when she is still at a low level of poverty in her life. To understand the reasons Eliza is able to change and be changed into an almost Cinderella like character. With Eliza going from and growing and changing through the hardship she faces. In the play Eliza begins with no confidence and works towards having a way to reach trough from learning during her life

Humans have a natural ability to know what is right and just and what is wrong. However, people are tempted on a regular basis, and often times people choose to go against what is right for what they want at the moment. Nathaniel Hawthorne describes the struggle of one man with his personal temptations in the short story, “Young Goodman Brown”. Through a trip into the woods on a dark, gloomy night, Young Goodman Brown battles between what he knows is right and what sparks his curiosity—what the others and doing in the woods—the same theme portrayed in Anton Chekhov’s “The Lady with the Dog.” In this short story, Young Goodman Brown loses his faith in humanity’s ability to do good when he is convinced the great lie by the “dark one”.

Mansfield’s description throughout the narrative is intriguing and captivating, pulling the reader into the drill hall and making them sway to the “oft, melting, ravishing tune” as though they themselves could have been Leila. Moreover, her use of description allows her to create the character of the “fat man” and utilise him to portray the idea that “happiness [doesn’t] last for ever.” Because she describes him as the fat man, who is old and wearing a coat that “looked dusty with French chalk”, she creates an evident contrast between the beautiful characters she initially described. Through this imagery, Mansfield subtly portrays Leila’s fears of losing the beauty of this first ball and emphasises that in fact, beauty doesn’t last. However, Mansfield plunges the reader back in to the dance, such that the almost

The street and blurred like photographs, in rain” (13-14). This comparison is a metaphor that compares the sight of the watching crowds to a wet photograph with running colors in order to convey how the speaker’s speed blurred his vision. This allows the reader

In Parker’s film adaptation, his emphasis of the sub-plot between Dr. Chasuble and Miss Prism, while becoming more entertaining, further detracts from Wilde’s concerns and only serves to strengthen the film as a romantic comedy. In Wilde’s play, Chasuble and Prism’s

In The Girls in Their Summer Dresses, it is necessary to explore the personal differences that cause problems in the relationship of the couple. The details of the story will lead to a conclusion that for Michael the relationship could just be a mere convenience or an affection solely generated by his physical wanting of Frances, so with the way she looks and appreciates the girls of New York.

Bernard Shaw’s play, Pygmalion, places substantial emphasis on the different social hierarchies in the early 20th century. This play was set in London England, where the upper classes believed that their behaviours, in particular elocution and appearance were much more appropriate in comparison to the lower classes. The more privileged classes believed that all the people who spoke articulately were at the top of the social scale, an assumption that was explored and challenged by Shaw through the characterisation and modification of Eliza. In the opening of scene of the play where Higgins was guessing where people were from based on their accents and dialect, he asked Eliza, “…How did

The story illustrates the Pygmalion myth originated from Ovid’s Metamorphoses in which Pygmalion is a sculptor who creates a sculpture of a woman so perfectly formed-he falls in love with her. While Shaw maintains the skeletal structure of the fantasy in which a gifted male fashions a woman out of lifeless raw material into a worthy partner for himself, Shaw does not allow the male to fall in love with his creation. In “Pygmalion” George Bernard Shaw incorporates the idealistic attitude of Ovid’s Metamorphoses “Aphrodite” by emphasizing the connection between Professor Higgins and Eliza Doolittle through intense insults.

Social standing is central to the plot of George Bernard Shaw’s play “Pygmalion”. The portrayal of class identity in Shaw’s play appears to be a criticism of the distinctions between high society and the poorer classes in Victorian England. Shaw’s aim was to portray how the upper-crust of Victorian society viewed the lower classes, as evidenced by Higgins’ treatment of Eliza upon her first visit to his laboratory; Higgins treats her as though she is too stupid to understand that he is insulting her. The assumption is that the wealthy view the lower classes as being somehow lesser. So what is it that Shaw is trying to impart upon the reader? Shaw appeared to show open disdain not just for the upper class of society but for society in general, and Pygmalion may be interpreted as an open criticism of class distinctions in Victorian England.

In this way, he draws our attention to his own art, and to his ability to create, through the medium of speech, not only Pygmalion's Galatea, but Pygmalion himself. When Higgins offers to help Eliza become a lady, merely to win a bet, he did not realize the consequences behind it. Higgins was not accustomed to the life of a working class, and so neglected the position Eliza would be put in. When Eliza is transformed to a lady, she finds it hard to adjust in the upper class with her new identity. Her complete agitation to her new character makes her loathe the day she asked Higgins for lessons. This can be shown when the author said, “Oh! If only I can go back to my flower basket! Why did I give up?” Eliza, like her father, realizes that class mobility changes ones’ identity. In light of the transformation, what happened to Eliza and her father expresses Shaws’ belief that people are capable in improving there lives with the cost of changing their character. Thus, it does not seem astonishing that the difference between a lady and a flower girl lies “rather in her treatment than in her behavior”.

By naming his drama "Pygmalion," Shaw reminds people of the ancient Pygmalion Myth. Pygmalion, a sculptor, makes a beautiful statue and falls in love with his own creation. He prays that life may be granted to it. The gods give him his wish. The statue becomes a living girl named Galatea. In Shaw's play, Eliza, the heroine, is transformed from a flower girl into a graceful lady. This change is like that of a stone into a statue of perfect beauty. But just as