Pygmalion and Galatea

Orpheus, in book ten, tells a tale of the sculptor Pygmalion falling in love with a statue but with a unique twist. With that, the tale has some details of a traditional love story and goes into a theme that shows love, and a mental and physical change in Pygmalion. Pygmalion goes through this change as he is first skeptical of women. He believed that a lot of women were flawed and judged quickly around others on their attributes. Furthermore, he has persuaded himself to only think about the best woman with perfect attributes. However, in part with his beliefs, Pygmalion has never found a woman representing his perfect image and has decided to spend the rest of his life without marrying. Pygmalion disliked women to a point…

The myth of the Pygmalion and Galatea us one of the most influential and inspiring ancient Greek myths, and became the main theme for theatrical plays, movies, and artistic paintings. The main idea of the mythological story can be traced from ancient times, all the up to very modernized productions and literature. The themes of the original story and all of the reinterpretations have to do with a metamorphosis of some kind, and the ideas of how a woman should look and behave. Pygmalion is a…

In class we read a play, Pygmalion, and learned about the greek myth to compare and contrast the two. There was a lot of differences between the two, but there was also a few similarities. I thought that the play was different then the myth because a lot happened in the play. The greek myth was about Pygmalion who fell in love with a statue. The play was about Higgins who turned a flower girl into a lady. They are both have the same concept just different ways of going about it. In the play and…

Botticelli, himself, created the painting to prove that non-Christian painting could be seen as beautiful, since most paintings during the Renaissance were themed around Christianity. In a similar painting from 1860, is Pygmalion and Galatea by Jean-Leon Gerome. The painting depicts the the Greek tale of Pygmalion who had created a sculpture of a woman so beautiful that he fell in love with it. He prayed to Aphrodite, and she brought his statue to life for him. In the painting it shows Pygmalion…

Since the dawn of time, the world has gone through many changes. Some changes may be in the geological aspects of earth or may be in the people of the earth. The people of the earth go through changes all of the time, whether the person being a real person or if it being a character in a video game, television show, or even in a book. In books, most characters experience some kind of change. In George Bernard Shaw’s book Pygmalion the main character Eliza Doolittle experiences many different…

Author Stephen King once said, “Books and movies are like apples and oranges. They both are fruit, but taste completely different.” Stephen King’s quote about the difference between books and movies exemplifies the contrast between the play, Pygmalion by Bernard Shaw, and the movie adaptation, My Fair Lady. Although both highlight the importance of phonetics and the teacher-student relationship that Henry and Eliza share, the alterations of the characters in the movie make it highly unrealistic.…

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…

conceived with one. Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw is a play that demonstrates an incredible change in the character Eliza Doolittle. As Eliza lives in neediness, she offers blossoms to acquire her living. Eliza does not have a training. This shows through the way that she doesn 't have the most legitimate method for talking. This happens through when Eliza is identifying with alternate characters when she meets then when she is still at a low level of destitution in her life. To comprehend…

Pygmalion is a play written by George Bernard Shaw, based on the Greek mythology of the same name. It features a poor, uneducated girl, Eliza Doolittle, who is taken on a journey to become a duchess, to open up a flower shop. She is mentored by a professor, named Henry Higgins. By the end of the play, it is unknown if Liza ever marries Higgins, or a young man named Freddy Eynsford-Hill. As mentioned, as the story comes to a close, it leaves the reader something to think about. Does Eliza…

“The difference between a lady and a flower girl is not how she behaves, but how she is treated”(page 120). In the book Pygmalion written by George Bernard Shaw, the main character Eliza Doolittle started off as a flower girl in the gutter, soon after a man named Henry Higgins a phonetic instructor brought her in and taught her how to speak like a duchess. However, Eliza has changed her outer appearance immensely, she remains the same woman internally. Eliza Doolittle has a very strong…