PYGMALION

Author

● He was born on 26 july

1856 in Dublin
● He wrote more than 60
plays
● In 1925 he won the
Nobel Prize in Literature
George Bernard Shaw 2
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“
If i have an apple and you have an apple
and we exchange apples then you and i
will still each have one apple. But if you
have an idea and i have an idea and
exchange these ideas, then each of us
will have two ideas.
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 Main Role Relationship Conflicts Meaning
Characters

Eliza Doolittle Protagonist, poor She is the Can’t change her She is able to
flower girl who experiment subject inner stay true to
wishes to be rich of higgins and characteristics to herself and to not
and happy pickering suit the newly conform to
changed outer please society
appearance

Mr.Higgins Antagonist, Friend of Pickering He tries to change His actions show

Professor of and wishes to be Eliza’s personality that no one can
phonetics and tries friend with Eliza but she wont let change another’s
to teach eliza the him characters
proper way of
society

Colonel Another researcher Friend of Higgins Trying to get Eliza He did not
Pickering of phonetics and Eliza and Higgins to change his
understand each morals to suit
other Higging’s needs 5
 Role Relationship Conflicts Meaning

Mrs. Higgins Mother of Protector of Has trouble in Is a role model

Higgins Eliza and keeps trying to reason for Eliza
Higgins in line with Higgins

Freddy Hill Ideal image of a Has feelings for Argues with the Give hopes to
man for Eliza Eliza people of his Eliza
society on his
choice of Eliza

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 Eliza’s transformation Eliza meets Mrs.Higgins

The bet The huge fight

Eliza runs into Professor Eliza goes away

Higgins and colonel Pickering
Plot line
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 Class

Identity

Women and femininity

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 Literary style
This book is a comedy
for educational purpose
in fact we can talk
about the
“Pygmalion effect”:

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The end!

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