Summary Of The Play Pygmalion
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Brief Overview
Beware of false knowledge
It is more dangerous than ignorance
- George Barnard Shaw
George Barnard Shaw was born on 26 July 1856 at Dublin , Ireland . He was an Irish comic Dramatist , Literary critic and Sociologist and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1925 . He died at the age of 94 in England .
His Notable Works :
1) Arms and the man
2) Saint Joan
3) Pygmalion
His Achievements :
1) Oscar Award - 1938
2) Academy Award - 1939
3) Nobel Prize - 1925
About the play " Pygmalion "
" I sold flowers I didn't sell myself . Now you have made a lady of me I am not fit to sell anything else "
Pygmalion was written by George Barnard Shaw . It was a Greek mythology . It was divided into 5 acts . " Pygmalion A Romance in 5 acts " .In Ancient Greek mythology , Pygmalion the king of Cyprus , also a sculptor, fell in love with the Ivory statue of a beautiful woman that he created . Eliza falls to convince people into believing that she is now Duchess by changing her appearance .
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| meenakshreebhil@gmail.com Act Wise Summary of The Play Pygmalion Act 01 .. " Higgins, a professor of Phonetics , is taking notes about the dialects spoken in that area " The starting act is set near a garden outside .All the scenes occur in the same setting .We are introduced to Clara and her mother .They are waiting for her brother Freddy to arrange transportation to return home . Freddy is frustrated .Eliza takes the opportunity and takes the cab and exits the space . She offers to pay for her lesson " In the second act the story continues with Higgins and Pickering having a conversation at the former's residence . Eliza claims to learn and improve her language skills . She offers to pay the tuition fees to Higgins . " He will teach her to speak standard English so that no one will be able to tell her from a member of the Lower class " Act 03...... " Mrs .Higgins worries about what will happen to Eliza when the experiment is over " A few months pass after the event at the end of the second act and the story resumes at the Higgins residence.Mrs.Higgins the mother of Mr. Higgins is greeted by his experiment to his mother . " He has taken Eliza to an Embassy Hall in London " . Several months later Higgins won his bet . He has taken Eliza to an Embassy bull in London where she mingled with the upper classes . She realises that Higgins is only interested in his own success and has no consideration as a human being when she leaves his house . " Eliza shows she has a will of her own " Next day at Mrs.Higgins house , Mrs. Higgins scolds Higgins and Pickering for how they have treated Eliza and reveals that Eliza is there . She will become a teacher of phonetics , stealing everything . She has learned from him in order to take care of his clients . To Sum Up ...... We can say that Pygmalion is the greatest play written by Shaw . " Pygmalion is the greatest mythological play by him " |
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