1039 words | 2 Pages
A pioneer writer, philosopher, and critique of the 20th century. The prominent figure of the twentieth century, George Barnard Shaw, is always renowned for his radical ideas. When Shakespeare is primarily an artist, whose object is to hold the mirror of nature, Shaw is basically...
666 words | 1 Page
Throughout the text, Pygmalion, by the playwright George Bernard Shaw, has explored numerous themes. George Bernard Shaw tackles these themes through the Victorian Romance genre, demonstrating the issues of wealth, privilege, education, and language that Eliza Doolittle goes through. The main theme that I will...
452 words | 1 Page
In the play, Pygmalion, by George Bernard Shaw, uses cultural criticism, revealing one of their strong accents in the book, Eliza, and most of the characters. The play very often by their speaking. They all have a different accent or way they talk throughout the...
539 words | 1 Page
Written in 1912 by George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion is set in the early 20th century, at the end of the Victorian era in England. This time period is greatly characterized by a particular movement of social reform, alluding to Shaw’s interest in the theme of...
1465 words | 3 Pages
Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion explores the theme of oppression of women by demonstrating the poor position of women in Victorian society under the influence of oppressive men and Victorian morality. Shaw achieves this by satirising the oppressive nature of Victorian middle-class morality and the beliefs and unfair...
2592 words | 1 Page
Shaw implicates society as a whole in the business of prostitution by exposing the underlying socio-economic conditions that serve to exploit the poor and render ‘immoral’ occupations like prostitution as viable options for lower class women to break out of the poverty cycle. Moreover, the...