Read Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw. Write about any two characters of the novel, distinctly contradictory to their original characteristics.
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Answer:
Shaw's "Pygmalion" is a complex work of art and as much a number of issues and ideas from the core of a diverse yet cohesive dramaturgical fabric.
Explanation:
Henry Higgins is a professor of phonetics who plays Pygmalion to Eliza Doolittle's Galatea. Is the author of Henry higgins's 'Universal Alphabet' and believes in concepts like visible speech and uses all manner of recording and photographic material to document his phonetic subjects, reducing people and their dialects into what he sees as readily understandable units. He is an unconventional man who goes in the opposite direction from the rest of the society in most matters. 40 years old, he is a bundle of paradoxes. Leggings is an extremely interesting character and the life of the play. All the the place of various concern is the metamorphosis of a common flower girl into a Duchess the development of Higgins's character is also important. Using ssis portrayed as being highly educated. Apart from being a professor of phonetics, he has a deep reverence for literature and fancies himself as a poet. He is self-indulgent, whimsical and ill-mannered when it comes to interacting with other people. Mix leggings obsessed with his profession.
When the play opens the audience in counters and mystical Bully who harangues the helpless Eliza. However, surprisingly enough, the Reader does not deserve prove office egoism and rather indulges his frequent technical outbursts because this is the key to his character, his childishness. This treat of impetus childishness in an otherwise extremely articulate and learned adult lends complexity to his characterization. It is important to note Higgin's lack of interest in women. He embraces Pygmalion's typical district for the feminine. Show father ads complexity to this issue by suggesting the perfect woman for higgins is his mother. Shaw questions the defining criteria of what constitutes a gentleman through the character of Higgins.
ELIZA:
Shaw's story of the flower girl from the slums was taught to speak so properly that she was able to pass as a Duchess at an Ambassador's is a garden party is perhaps one of the best known works by him, partly because of the popularity of the play which, in turn, inspired a more sentimentalized version in a popular movie and later became one of the world's most popular musical comedies.
Everything about Eliza Doolittle seems to defy any conventional notions we might have about the romantic heroine. The character of Eliza is best seen by the progression which she makes from a "thing of stone" and "nothingness", "a guttersnipe" and "a squash cabbage leaf" to the final act where she is an exquisite lady, totally self-possessed a person who has in many ways surpass the creator. It is not until the third act when Elisa makes her appearance at Mrs Higgins's house that we know that Eliza possesses a great deal of native intelligence that she has a perfect ear for all source of sounds and excellent ability at reproducing sounds a superb memory and a passionate desire to improve herself. Eliza is the only character in the play that changes and grows under the stress of circumstances. She is a round, three dimensional figure like the heroines of Shakespeare. This is clear from her defiance and from her throwing the slippers into the face of Higgings because both heand pickering have ignored her, though it has been as much ordinal for her as for them.
Conclusion:
Higgins and Eliza, though complimentary, are contracditory in characters. Thus although there is fabulous egestion of the possibility of a romantic involvement between them, one knows that union between the two is impossible because of their fundamental incompatibility in their views behold about life.