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Pygmalion shaw
Pygmalion shaw









pygmalion shaw

The protagonist Eliza is the one who plays Galatea’s role she is the weak, the child, and the one who always gets corrected. Professor Higgins Can be considered a God, father, and the creator of humankind. This play depicts that Mr.Higgins’s role is the same role of Pygmalion. The idea of creation in this Greek myth is quite similar to the one that exists in the play. Thereby, because of all the love he had for his statue, the statue became an alive woman called Galatea. The original story is that Pygmalion was a sculptor who carved a beautiful woman statue out of ivory and he was deeply in love with his creation. This essay intends to portray the feminist aspect of Pygmalion play. Shaw depicted how women were treated during the Victorian era, and how women were ought to act in a certain way. All through the play, we see male figures dominating over the females. I believe Shaw’s Pygmalion is a great portrayal of feminist criticism. However, the most discussed view of all has been the feminist. Shaw’s Pygmalion is a play that received discussions in diverse perspectives. Shaw intended to criticize the dividing of both sexes in the public and private domains that were established in the nineteenth century. By making a strictly reasoned man and a woman who is highly concerned with her emotions.

pygmalion shaw

As Shaw defends feminism, we can see an obvious criticism of society through his works, and he might have created his characters to shed light on the categorization of men and women in two different frames.

pygmalion shaw

These female figures can be analyzed in line with the women’s suffrage which was a movement for British women to fight for their right to vote, opposite to the submissive female figures that the previous centuries were known for.

pygmalion shaw

In his plays, his attitude towards man-woman relationship was mainly satirical as he aims to reform the passiveness of this kind of relationships through introducing the New Woman who can conquer her challenges and issues and therefore working to change herself in a better way through her self-assured character. Shaw has challenged the typical representation of women during the Victorian era.











Pygmalion shaw