Pygmalion Summary-PDF

George Bernard Shaw: was an Irish playwright, Born in Dublin then moved to London, he started his writing career in literary criticism and then moved to playwright and He wrote more than sixty plays,he’s the 2nd playwright after Shakespeare and he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. Wheats...

George Bernard Shaw: was an Irish playwright, Born in Dublin then moved to London, he started his writing career in literary criticism and then moved to playwright and He wrote more than sixty plays,he’s the 2nd playwright after Shakespeare and he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. Wheats the most important change he made? - the realism, he used drama to change his society, social reform - ‫ﻣﻮ ھﻮ اول واﺣﺪ ﻛﺘﺐ ﺑﺎل‬realism ، ‫اول واﺣﺪ ﻛﺎن ﻛﺎﺗﺐ ﻣﺴﺮﺣﯿﺎت ﻧﺮوﯾﺠﻲ‬ ‫ اﺳﻤﮫ‬Henrik Ibsen ، ‫ﻟﻜﻦ ﺟﻮرج اول واﺣﺪ ﻛﺘﺐ ﻓﯿﮭﺎ ﺑﺎﻻﻧﺠﻠﯿﺰي واﻟﻠﻲ ﺷﮭﺮھﺎ‬ - He’s the ultimate realist We took the word (SHAVIAN) from his name (shaw) which means the style or way of bernard shaw - shavian female characters Pygmalion - its named after a greek meth. The characters : - Prof. Higgins - Eliza, his father - Pickering - Mrs. Higgins (‫)اﻣﮫ‬ - Freddy, his mother and his sister TAKE IT EASY  the play starts with a street scene with no names (why? To make you focus more on the scene rather than their names) it was a rainy day in one of London streets - flower girl (has a broken English) > Eliza - a woman with her daughter and her son > Freddy and his mother and his sister - The note taker > Prof. Higgins Slippers scene > the most important feminist scene Street scene > realism scene Themes: - Gender discrimination (discrimination means a treatment based on category “age, religion, social status, gender” rather than individual merit) 1- equal to men 2- free will - when Eliza decided to be changed into a lady - when Eliza opened her own flowers shop - when Eliza chose to marry Freddy 3- NO sentimental heroines (‫)كان ضدها‬ 4- leading & subordinates characters - Eliza - Mrs. Higgins 5- Slippers scene 6- The end (when she married Freddy not the hero) 7- Mrs. Higgins