Pygmalion And George Bernard Shaw And Tawfiq Al-Approach

This research is a comparative study of the myth of "Pygmalion" between the Irish writer George Bernard Shaw and the Arabic writer Tawfiq al-Hakim. We chose these two plays because of their similarity weather in their main theme or the title. The importance of this study lies behind its benefits. When one compare between two literary works, it means he tries to break the barriers between of the two cultures and he also tries to bring together the work of the writers an addition to focusing on the strong points of each writer thus contributes to the development of literature and writing. We have offered at the beginning of this paper brief biography about our writers then a summary of the two plays after passing by the common theme between of …show more content…
Despite the difference in there time and place. The similarity in the names of the two plays led us to many questions like why are they similar, who wrote before, what is the common idea and so many questions an addition to many other points that we discussed in this paper. We are divided the research into two elements the first thing we have to know is Pygmalion was written by Shaw for the first time, then Tawfeq was inspired by his …show more content…
He fells in love with a beautiful statue of a woman. When he prayed to Aphrodite for a wife like it, the goddess brought the statue to life and Pygmalion married her. In one version of the legend, the statue becomes Aphrodite; another states that Pygmalion sculpted the statue himself and that after coming to life it was called Galatea. In the play, he wished that this statue stone Pygmalion turns to very beautiful woman to marry her, he prayed to Venus (the goddess of beauty) and what he wish was happened. The wretch sculptor Pygmalion did not expect that his pretty wife "Galatia" would become an old woman plays with Nerses in the vast fields, and wrinkles her face are made up over