George Bernard Shaw

Truth ts very often stranger than fiction, and it is true but strange that my three favorite books are called “The Outsiders”. Chances are you did not escape high school without a reading of S. E Hinton’s “The Outsiders.” This bittersweet tale of borderline blue-collar youth struggling to survive in a bleak urban environment is haunting and strange. Some of the denimed protagonists are still in high school, where they fight with the upper-class “Soc” boys and reveal surprisingly sensitive…

Throughout Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw, it becomes clear Eliza Doolittle has very distinct character traits. One of the strongest of these traits is independence. Eliza’s independence is shown several times throughout the play, and it is first seen as she explains why she wants to further her linguistic education. During the early 1900s in which Pygmalion is set, the main goal of most women was to be lady like enough to find themself a husband, but this is not Eliza’s current goal. Eliza…

Throughout my entire life, I’ve been involved in the business world. My parents have owned various businesses during my lifetime. I’m everlastingly grateful for my parents and the businesses that aided me in unveiling my passion. From lemonade stands as a child to assisting in managing full-scale restaurants, these experiences have been invaluable. As a child, I remember speculating what my passion in life was. Other kids wanted to be dancers and astronauts, some chefs or racecar drivers, but I…

Eventually, in the late 1600s, two more folios were published which included many newer improvements and many new plays which are believed to have not been wrote shakespeare. Modern day historians believe that the two later folios were made to meet the changing preferences in the area at the time. Due to the fact that all of Shakespeare's work is over 400 years old, there are many people who have conspiracy thoughts toward Shakespeare. It's hard to imagine that someone could accuse a very famous…

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 Treacherous Follies of Society Desdemona from Othello by William Shakespeare (1969) and Eliza Doolittle from Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw (2003) are characters who struggle with the repercussions of prejudice created by society and who defy social norms. Prejudice is an unfavourable opinion or feeling formed beforehand or without knowledge, thought, or reason. Although both plays are based off of different centuries, both characters have similar characteristics and ideologies on how…

classes are dependent on one another throughout. When analyzing with a Marxist perspective, it is very clear that the society is separated by the Upper Class and the lower class, but the main factor that can help one climb the social latter is Education. Shaw provides much reasonable evidence as to why one might see the separation between the classes and why it is so that they are…

Eliza Doolittle is a pitiable flower girl, who unfortunately becomes an experimental object of two linguistic gentlemen in Pygmalion. Higgins and Pickering, who are extremely interested in phonetics, share a mutual belief that changing someone’s speech manner and accent is the gist of a life-changing, social transformation. Their criticism of the girl’s dreadful accent generally reflects the inevitable reality of social hierarchy in Britain, where the wrongful partiality of language, social…

How has Priestley used the characters in the play to present his views about the social class system? J.B Priestly used all of his characters to send a specific message to the audience of 1945. The year the play is set, 1912, Hierarchy and class status were what society was built upon making it a crucial aspect in the play. However after World War One and World War Two, the class system was nearly non-existent. This was due to the aristocrats and working class having to work together during both…

he Future is determined by one’s action in the present, So when given a chance to look at the future, people will want to come back to the present, and change their actions for a better future. In the novella A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, Scrooge, the main character, is a wicked and grumpy man to start with. As four ghost visits him, with the ghost of future as the most influential, Scrooge becomes a caring, joyful man. While the all the ghosts are important in the development of…