...and Mr. Higgins. The play concludes with them fighting with each other and Eliza declaring that she could teach others. Mr. Higgins finally sees her as a strong women and invites her to stay with him as well as buy him pair of gloves and a ham. As Eliza is walking away she tells him good-bye and that she is never going to see him again (Shaw, 1912). In 1916 Shaw was upset that critics and audiences were actually changing the way the play ended in order to give it a happy ending. So he wrote an essay “What Happened Afterwards,” which proceeds to continue telling the story and Eliza does not end up with Mr. Higgins (Solomon, 1964). Pygmalion was published in 1912 in a time where there was a differentiation between the upper and lower class of society. In this time period women were not seen as having the ability to be strong or independent they had not even gained elementary rights and privileges. Ladies of the upper class were expected to marry into a wealthy family. Women of the lower class had to work in factories, as a housekeepers or do other menial work to help provide for their families and themselves (Trueman, 2015) Shaw was a member of the Fabian Society and...
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...Выполнила: студентка 4 курса гр. 02194 Бадмаева Л.Б Проверила: преподаватель Федотова Н.А Analysis “The man of Destiny” The text under analysis is entitled “The man of Destiny”, written by a prominent playwright George Bernard Shaw. George Bernard Shaw was born in 26th of July in 1856 in a middle class family in Dublin. He was the second (after Shakespeare) the most popular play writer in the English theatre. His first profitable writing was music and literary criticism, in which capacity he wrote many highly articulate pieces of journalism. Nearly all his writings address prevailing social problems, but have a vein of comedy which makes their stark themes more palatable. Besides, he is known of his outspokenness and “barbed humor”, brilliant dialogues, full of witty paradoxes and often bitterly satirical. Bernard Shaw’s main talent was for drama, and he wrote more than 60 plays. Among them are “Saint Joan”, Caesar and Cleopatra, Man and Superman, Pygmalion and “The man of Destiny”. The man of Destiny is an 1897 play. It was published as a part of Plays Pleasant, which also included Arms and the Man, Candida and You never Can Tell. The story takes plays in the 17 century. It consists play of dialogues that includes author’s remarks in brackets. Bernard Shaw called his play “The man of Destiny”, because it was a name given to Napoleon Bonaparte as reflecting his own belief, for he was a fatalist. The story is referred to Drama. Drama is a genre of literature represented...
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...Pygmalion- George Bernard Shaw The play Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw is a play about social change as well as language. It takes place in London, England in the early twentieth century when speech and choice of words was an important factor in one’s social standing. Shaw reflects this in the two main characters, Henry Higgins and Eliza Doolittle. The character Eliza Doolittle is presented at first to the audience as ‘The flower girl’. She is a common girl who sells flowers down at Covent Garden, once known as London's main fruit, vegetable and flower market. She lives in poverty as during then, Covent Garden was a very poor area. At first, she is shown to the audience as quite a rude, smart-mouthed and loud girl. In the play she keeps on repeating “I’m a good girl I am” making people understand that she just sells flowers, and not herself; she is not a prostitute, as many would assume so. At the start of the play, we are also introduced to ‘The Note Taker’ soon known as Henry Higgins himself. Higgins is a professor of phonetics and the Pygmalion to Eliza. He is presented as a person who has a lot of power, is arrogant and careless about others. Moreover, Higgins is very wealthy, he is shown to the public his upper class status by the way he dresses “It’s aw rawt: e’s a gentlemen: look at his be-oots…” When he first meets Eliza he insults her and bullies her by calling her “a squashed cabbage leaf” and a “girl” when clearly she is a woman. This shows how he is also very...
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...Classics Edition of George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion TABLE OF CONTENTS An Introduction .......................................................................................3 Synopsis of the Play .................................................................................3 Prereading Activities .................................................................................6 During Reading Activities ......................................................................13 After Reading Activities .........................................................................21 About the Author of this Guide .............................................................29 About the Editors of this Guide .............................................................29 Full List of Free Teacher's Guides...........................................................30 Click on a Classic ..................................................................................31 Copyright © 2007 by Penguin Group (USA) For additional teacher’s manuals, catalogs, or descriptive brochures, please email academic@penguin.com or write to: PENGUIN GROUP (USA) INC. Academic Marketing Department 375 Hudson Street New York, NY 10014-3657 www.penguin.com/academic In Canada, write to: PENGUIN BOOKS CANADA LTD. Academic Sales 90 Eglinton Ave. East, Ste. 700 Toronto, Ontario Canada M4P 2Y3 Printed in the United States of America A Teacher’s Guide to the Signet Classics Edition of George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion...
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...How to create a Pen and Paper RPG Creating a successful pen and paper roleplaying world requires both an understanding of mathematics and literature. In order for a developer to create their own roleplaying game, they first need an idea of what they are wanting to do. Typically, it's a good idea to define the concept in the title of the world that is being created. Some examples include Dungeons and Dragons, World of Darkness, and Shadowrun. Each of these names catches the eye of the reader, and defines what it is that the setting is in the most general way. Once a concept has been made, the developer needs to define how complicated or simplistic they want the game to be. There are three main types of roleplaying game dice systems that are in circulation with popular pen and paper RPGs today: there is the D10 system, the D20 system, and the D100 system. The D10 system uses a number of ten sided dice equal to the trait pool, defined as the player characters raw capability, to determine whether or not a certain action succeeded or not. If the dice roll above a targeted number of the ten sided dice, then the number of 'successes' define how well the action taken performed. The D20 system actually involves a use of all dice, for various different traits in various different circumstances. Meanwhile, the D100 system is a percentiles game, where you have a certain percentage chance to perform something and when you roll, you need to roll under the percentile required to succeed...
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...How far do the sources suggest that the British authorities responded to the 1916 Easter rising with excessive force? Source 1 portrays the view of George Bernard Shaw, through the form of a letter written to the Daily News within this he shows his dislike towards the British Government for not raising their ‘voice’ at the punishments handed to the leaders of the rising. He shows that he feels the force was excessive when explaining that the ‘Government shot first’ and ‘told the public second’ voicing his anger that they had no time to protest against the punishment that was to be handed to them. He further goes on to portray the force as excessive by explain that he believed them to be ‘prisoners of war’ and therefore he believed it was incorrect to slaughter them’ which further supports the view that it was an excessive use of force. This view although not entirely voiced is also supported in source 3. The Source however does not state that the use of force was excessive however implies it, ‘stating that Asquith went to Dublin to prevent further risings’. It is surprising that the source does not condemn the actions of the government as it quite clearly states that there was ‘bitterness’ surrounding it. Also considering the letter was sent by an Irish Nationalist MP, you would assume that his opinion on the matter would be outrage as the country they are fighting to break union with has murdered some of his own. Although they don’t come from the same party they share the...
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...By Anastasiya Pozdnyakova, group 502 THE STYLISTIC ANALYSIS OF THE TEXT “THE MIRACULOUS REVENGE” WRITTEN BY GEORGE BERNARD SHAW Introduction The text under analysis “The Miraculous Revenge” is created by the famous Irish writer G. Bernard Shaw. The story represents fiction and is written in a righteous tone with the elements of comic tone. The text relates the misadventures of an alcoholic investigator while he probes the mystery of a graveyard—full of saintly corpses—that migrates across a stream to escape association with the body of a newly buried sinner. The author’s attention is focused on the problem of disparity between people belonging to various classes. “The Miraculous Revenge” was written in 1885. Through his writings G. Bernard Shaw addresses prevailing social problems, but he also has a vein of comedy in his works which makes their stark themes more palatable. Issues which engaged Shaw's attention included education, marriage, religion, government, health care, and class privilege. He was most angered by what he perceived as the exploitation of the working class. He gained equal rights for men and women, alleviated abuses of the working class, rescinded private ownership of productive land, and promoted healthy lifestyles. Summary The action of the text under analysis takes place in Dublin on the 5th of August. Zeno Legge arrives to visit his uncle the Cardinal Archbishop, but he doesn’t find the uncle at home, and not satisfied with the offered food...
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...Food Security “There is no sincerer love than the love of food,” George Bernard Shaw a literary critic once said. His statement rings true, as food feeds the functions of society. However, not all countries feel the cushion of a full meal each day. Every year 15 million children die from hunger. Scarcity of food is an epidemic affecting people all over the world. Therefore, food security, the access by which all people at any time can have access to enough nutritious food for an individual to have a healthy life, is a vital part of a countries concern. Nigeria is one such country, like many others in which food security is of high concern. No longer a third world country, as of 2005, Nigeria has been declared a middle class country and continues to develop from there. However, this does not make Nigeria exempt from the brutality of hunger and the shortage of food. Officially named the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Nigeria is a country located in West Africa with its borders being surrounded by Chad, Benin, Cameroon and Niger. Nigeria is the most populated country in Africa and the seventh most populated in the entire world. Naturally, with such a high population the amount and production of food is a large concern for the government. As stated by Olyeran-Oyeyinkain the book, The Gene Revolution and Global Food Security, “Agriculture has become a major contributor to the Nigeria's economy. Accounting for about 40% of gross domestic product (GDP) and employing about 60% of the...
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...MAJOR BARBARA by George Bernard Shaw THE AUTHOR George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) was born into a lower-middle class Protestant family in Dublin, Ireland. His father was an alcoholic failed merchant, while his mother was a professional singer. When Shaw was sixteen, his mother ran off with her voice teacher, leaving him at home to complete school, which he despised. In 1876, he joined his mother in London and took up a career in journalism and writing, beginning with a string of five unsuccessful novels. Meanwhile, he became interested in political causes, especially socialism. This led him to become one of the founders of the Fabian Society, which had as its stated goal to transform Britain into a socialist society by means of education and legislation, while scorning the revolutionary violence of some of the Continental socialists. His first success as a writer came through his works of art, music, and dramatic criticism. It was not until 1891 that he wrote his first play, but once he started, he rarely stopped until his death at the age of 94, eventually producing a total of sixty plays. During his first twelve years as a playwright, he wrote a number of plays that are now highly esteemed (Arms and the Man, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida), but found that London theaters were unwilling to stage them. But in 1904, the Court Theater in Chelsea came under new management, and Shaw’s plays found a home among people interested in experimental drama. Here, he was able to direct his...
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...HUMN 100-41 July 3 2012 A Fair Lady in Pygmalion My Fair Lady is compared to Pygmalion My Fair Lady, directed by George Cukor, re-creates George Bernard Shaw’s play, Pygmalion on the big screen. Both stories are told in their own unique way, yet still bare the same story. Both stories tell the story of a young Cockney flower girl, Eliza Doolittle, who wishes to improve her English language with hopes of working as a clerk in a flower shop one day. In the beginning, the girl meets Higgins, an unkind, condescending gentleman while trying to hide from an unexpected rainfall. Higgins takes the girl into his home and teaches her how to become a lady. By the end, the girl learns everything about how to be a well brought-up young lady, and peruse her dream to work in the flower shop. While My Fair Lady follows Pygmalion’s storyline, the film is a musical production that really livens up the story with its upbeat singing and dancing. George Cukor (1899-1983) was born in New York City and moved to Hollywood in 1929 to begin his career as a dialogue director. Cukor's first big hit was "Little Women" in 1933. He continued to direct films for over fifty years. In this time period, he directed another big success, My Fair Lady, which he won an Oscar award for in 1964. George Barnard Shaw (1856-1950) lived in Dublin, Ireland, before moving to London in 1876. Shaw wrote music and literature regularly, but struggled financially. In 1895 he began writing plays, creating over 60 scripts...
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...INTRODUCTION The plays and prefaces of Bernard Shaw deal with many and diverse themes. At least four, however, concern themselves with evolutionary themes and ideas: Man and Superman, Back to Methusalah, The Simpleton of the Unexpected Isles, and Far-fetched Fables. In Man and Superman, especially the third act, the preface, and The Revolutionist's Handbook and Pocket Companion, Shaw touches on two main themes: the pursuit of man by woman and the direction of evolution, which Shaw sees as leading towards the development of the mind and brain. In Back to Methusalah, Shaw carries forward his vision of evolution as proceeding in the direction of mental development but introduces a seemingly new idea in the last play of the cycle, the antithesis of mind and body. Shaw's dualism receives its most explicit statement in the last play of the cycle although there may be indications of it in the earlier plays. The mind-body antithesis, however, derives as a philosophical problem from Descartes,1 although the antithesis also appeared in the Manichean and Gnostic heresies, the spirit, or mind, being regarded as good and the body as evil. Although the antithesis of body and mind makes its first open appearance in the Methusalah cycle, it is present, at least as an implicit assumption in Man and Superman. Don Juan continually expresses his longing for the life of contemplation, a life which is to be achieved at the expense of the body. We will deal with the presence of the mind body antithesis...
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...Anti-mimesis is a philosophical position that holds the direct opposite of Aristotelian mimesis. Its most notable proponent is Oscar Wilde, who opined in his 1889 essay The Decay of Lying that, "Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life". In the essay, written as a Platonic dialogue, Wilde holds that anti-mimesis "results not merely from Life's imitative instinct, but from the fact that the self-conscious aim of Life is to find expression, and that Art offers it certain beautiful forms through which it may realise that energy.".[1][2] The philosophy holds that art sets the aesthetic principles by which people perceive life, and does not imitate life. What is found in life and nature is not what is really there, but is that which artists have taught people to find there, through art. As in an example posited by Wilde, although there has been fog in London for centuries, one notices the beauty and wonder of the fog because "poets and painters have taught the loveliness of such effects...They did not exist till Art had invented them.".[1] McGrath places the antimimetic philosophy in a tradition of Irish writing, including Wilde and writers such as Synge and Joyce in a group that "elevate blarney (in the form of linguistic idealism) to aesthetic and philosophical distinction", noting that Terry Eagleton observes an even longer tradition that stretches "as far back in Irish thought as the ninth-century theology of John Scottus Eriugena" and "the fantastic hyperbole of the...
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...In 1952, the estate of George Bernard Shaw granted to Gabriel Pascal Enterprises, the exclusive rights to produce a musical play and a motion picture based on Shaw’s play Pygmalion. The license would be terminated if Gabriel Pascal Enterprises didn’t arrange for well-known composers. In July 1954, George Pascal, the owner of 98 percent of Gabriel Pascal died before the negotiations had been completed. However, before he died, in February 1954, Pascal had sent a letter to Kingman, his executive secretary, granting to her certain percentages of his share of the expected profits from Pygmalion. Subsequently, My fair lady, based on Pygmalion was highly successful. Kingman then sued to enforce Pascal’s gift assignment of the future royalties. The Dayton Country Club Company offers many social activities to its members. However the privilege to play golf is reserved to a special membership category and additional fees are charged. The club chooses golfing memberships from a waiting list of members according to strict rules. Magness and Redman were golfing members of the Club. Upon their filing for bankruptcy, their trustee sought to assign by sale their right under these memberships. The bankruptcy court found that the Club’s rules governing golf membership were essentially anti-assignment provisions and therefore the estate could not assign rights contained in the membership agreement. The bankruptcy court’s ruling was affirmed. PEPCO, Potomac Electric Power Company, is an electric...
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...no. If you don’t step forward, you’re always in the same place − Nora Roberts 7) I've missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. Twenty-six times I've been trusted to take the game-winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed − Michael Jordan. 8) The only place you find success before work is in the dictionary − May V. Smith 9) Where hope grows, miracles blossom − Elna Rae 10) A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing − George Bernard Shaw 11) Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent − Eleanor Roosevelt 12) It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes − Sally Field 13) I quit being afraid when my first venture failed and the sky didn't fall down − Allen H. Neuharth 14) Hope never abandons you, you abandon it − George Weinberg 15) Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you − Ralph Waldo Emerson 16) Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust − Jesse Owens 17) People are like stained-glass windows. They...
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...scrutiny of history. So, on one hand there are movements for freedom or liberty which have united people and on the other hand there are those movements which have succeeded only in tearing up the social fabric and leave the people high and dry. Thus, freedom is best defined by this time tested statement: “freedom does not mean license, but the wisdom to choose what is right for oneself.” So freedom can never be intrusive that it encroaches upon the rights of others. As Lincoln famously declared in 1859, “Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves”. There are two sides to every coin and just as rights are complemented by duties, freedom cannot come without responsibility and the wisdom to exercise it properly. George Bernard Shaw was, therefore, bang on target when he commented in his book ‘Man and Superman’, “The revolutionist’s hand book” that “Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.” To be able to enjoy freedom, a person...
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