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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Richardson who was raised in poverty by her mother and stepfather in Antigua. She was sent to the United States to take care of herself at 17 and worked as an au pair and receptionist. She took the name of Jamaica Kincaid from a character in a George Bernard Shaw Play which was an act in part out of resentment toward her mother who did not agree with her career choice. She states that her stories written are part in truth and we can see some proof of that in the story. The story “Girl” is about
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wishing to better herself so she could move up in life. Sounds like a typical fairy tale beginning right? Not quite. A bet is made and Eliza is turned into a new project for Henry Higgins, a professor of phonetics. The play Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw was a comical drama, held at the Stagehouse Theatre. Social class, vanity, transformation, and even regretful wishes plague the characters of Pygmalion. The setting of Pygmalion was simple and brought the audience right up into the play
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Bernard Shaw’s ‘Pygmalion’ displays late England and its division based on one’s speech. With an eagerness to break the barriers and receive an “elementary education,” Eliza Doolittle finds herself abused and used by the men in her life. It was apparent to me that Eliza and Alfred Doolittle; her father did not have a close relationship. I conclude that this must be because Mr. Doolittle did not fulfill his fatherly duties. A father should provide for his children. However, Eliza from a young age
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Eliza Doolittle Eliza Doolittle is from the play “Pygmalion” who’s written by George Bernard Shaw. She is the main character in this play, and is known as a sassy, smart-mouthed flower girl with deplorable English. She is known for being an east-end girl who is very poor and is uneducated because she didn’t attend school. Although she is uneducated, this does not mean she is not smart, quick and clever. She uses her tactical thinking to pretend to whine and moan to make people believe or help
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own creation. Captivated by the beauty of his sculpture, he pleads to the Greek gods to give him a wife as much like the sculpture as possible. The gods bring the sculpted woman to life. In the theatrical version of Pygmalion, scriptwriter George Bernard attempts to prove the concept that “the way one person treats another can, for better or worse, be transforming” (Livingston, 5). In the article “Pygmalion in Management” author J. Sterling Livingston uses Barnard’s fairy tale and the Pygmalion effect
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