- Taschenbuch: 176 Seiten
- Verlag: Penguin Classics; Auflage: Reissue (1. Mai 2001)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 0140437894
- ISBN-13: 978-0140437898
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 19,3 x 12,7 x 1,8 cm
- Durchschnittliche Kundenbewertung: 4.7 von 5 Sternen Alle Rezensionen anzeigen (3 Kundenrezensionen)
- Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 966.469 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)
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Shaw's dramatization of a Cockney flower girl's metamorphosis into a lady is both a fantasy and a platform for his views on social class, money and women's independence,
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Pygmalion both delighted and scandalized its first audiences in 1914. A brilliantly witty reworking of the classical tale of the sculptor Pygmalion, who falls in love with his perfect female statue, it is also a barbed attack on the British class system and a statement of Shaw's feminist views. In Shaw's hands, the phoneticist Henry Higgins is the Pygmalion figure who believes he can transform Eliza Doolittle, a cockney flower girl, into a duchess at ease in polite society. The one thing he overlooks is that his 'creation' has a mind of her own.
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The modern myth of Pygmalion,
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In "Pygmalion" Shaw describes a new, compared to Ovid's Metamorphoses slightly changed story about Pygmalion.It is a comedy in which a phonetician tries to make a lady out of an ordinary flower girl. Higgin's ideal of womanhood becomes alivebut not in the way he expected. I think the story is a masterpiece of comedy. The reader laughs heartily about the fool Freddy, his inability of succeeding, his constant failures. Another funny scene is the one when Eliza first appears in high society, when she speaks with a correct accent but is unable to make polite conversation. Mr. Doolittle seems to be full of contradictions. He first appears at Higgin's house in order to make profit out of his daughter and there appears to be quite a capitalist. But some time later he critizizes the middle class, which gives money only to the poor who "deserve" it. He does not want to have much money, just a little to buy alcohol. With more money he would just want even more and more and become a capitalist. Ironically he - who once represented a challenge to the morality of the middle and upper class - later inherits a lot of money and becomes a rich man, the man he never wanted to be. Mrs Higgins is in my opinion a very sympathetic charakter. She is the only person her son listens to and the only woman he likes. She often criticises him for his behaviour, especially to Eliza. She gives her son, a haughty, snobbish charakter wiht few emotions a more personal appearance. For Eliza she is a mother als well a model. She helps and supports the girl as well as possible and gives her something like a refuge. I think Shaw describes his Pygmalion-Charakters in a very good, very impressive way. And this is in my eyes the reason that makes the book worth reading.
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Great play from 1913,
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Georg Bernhard Shaw (1856-1950) published this social-critical play called "Pygmalion" in 1913. It was made into a musical under the title "My fair lady" in 1958. The novel is about the bet of Professor Henry Higgins and Colonel Pickering, if Higgins can transform the cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle and pass her as a duchess at the ambassadors garden party, teaching her RP (received pronunciation).It is very entertaining comedy, using the gutter language of London (still spoken today) Cockney to critizise the divisions of classes at that time in a very humerous way. Although Shaw tries to let Eliza speak in the real accent, it is easy to read for languages lerners. Helfen Sie anderen Kunden bei der Suche nach den hilfreichsten Rezensionen
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The Importance of rhetorical and physical transformation,
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The original makeover story from which a thousand imitators were born, this is the tale of how dapper Henry Higgins tries to elevate Eliza Doolittle from the cockney streets to the upper class.In My Fair Lady, Audrey Hepburn made the character of Eliza Doolittle an instant and beloved classic. Here is the chance to read Pygmalion, George Bernard Shaw's original play that formed the basis for the beloved musical. Two old gentlemen with an interest in linguistics and phonetics make a wager: Professor Higgins bets Colonel Pickering that he can pass off a girl with a thick cockney accent as a well-spoken duchess. The next day, the young girl Eliza Doolittle comes to Higgins' house asking for speech lessons, and Higgins' experiment begins. In addition to speaking lessons, Higgins trains Eliza in upper-class etiquette and dresses her in new clothes, and when she leaves the house for the first time, the dustman does not recognize her. After months of intensive training, Eliza is shown off in society and her transformation appears to be a resounding success. Once Higgins and Pickering have settled the terms of the wager, though, they grow bored with what they have thought of as a mere project. But Eliza has taken her rhetorical and physical transformation much more seriously, and the men fail to realize that their little project may be more than a game after all. Shaw's insightful play explores the nature of change and transformation--and asks how permanent such things can be Helfen Sie anderen Kunden bei der Suche nach den hilfreichsten Rezensionen
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