George Bernard Shaw

Front 1

T.F. Evans

Back 1

Politics vs Poetry (can't have one without the other)
-Evolution of political views (mostly socialism)
-Fabian (new structure of economy and society)
-Marx Theory of Value (product is equal to cost of labor)
-Jevon's Theory (utility value)
-Politics in plays:
1.) Took real political world and put friends in; plays
2.) Socialsim of E. Europe, social Darwinism (believed in building up and then collapsing)
3.) Shaw has spiritual sense believes in a power outside of self
-Combination of socialism and capitalism

Front 2

Jean Reynolds

Back 2

Biographical/ Psychoanalytic theory
-Both/and- what the story says and what the reader thinks
-Shaw and Language (destabilizes reader and author)
-Shaw and Psychology
-Freud- NO!
-Jungian archetypes
-Shaw and Postmodernism and why it doesn't work
1.) Shaw before Derrida
2.) Inconsistent with skeptiscism
3.) Literary theory has nothing to do with Shaw
Shaw and Deconstruction
1.) Derrida is not a literary critic
2.) Texts resist their creator's authority
3.) They both look for truth
4.) Marx is common ancestor
5.) Challenges false harmony (ideology lulls us into a false harmony)
6.) Deconstruct ideology
-Shaw and G.B.S. (Alter ego)

Front 3

J. Ellen Gainor

Back 3

-Bathroom "rape" scene
-Pygmalion and Snow White
1. Mirror- Eliza has never seen herself in the mirror
2. Apple/poison- Chocolates that Higgins used to coax her to try and she chokes
3. Mrs. Pearce "rapes" Eliza to clean her (mentally)
4. Mrs. Pearce takes away Eliza's virginity- associates cleanliness with death
-Mrs. Pearce is surrogate of male desires.

Front 4

Middle-Class Morality

Back 4

Capitalism is basis of morality
-If you can't beat them, join them
-Doolittle talks about it in Pygmalion
-Major Barbara at the end of play
-Mrs. Warren: Do what you have to do to get where you want to.
-Vivie: Product of MCM, but she's above it
-Doolittle: HAve to live for other rather than himself.