![]() ![]() Secondly, the dramatist has brought about his Theory of Life-force through Eliza and Higgins, which criticizes their attitude towards marriage. You have had a thousand times as much out of me as I have out of you. When the experiment is over she is of no value to him. He uses her as a tool to carry out his experiment on phonetics. Though Higgins undertakes Eliza to raise her to the position of a duchess by teaching her fashionable English, he cannot raise her status. Let us illustrate these through the analysis of the theme and his major characters as below:įirst, the dramatist Shaw criticized the age-long reserved outlook of men towards women through the depiction of relationships through Higgins the professor of phonetics and Eliza Doolittle the flower girl. His play entitled ‘Pygmalion’ is such a problem play where he has made a thorough critical assessment of the man-woman relationship, their attitude towards the opposite sex and class struggle between the middle class and lower middle class concerning their economic and social status. ![]() ![]() In this genre of drama, he has made a critical assessment of some existing social problems or problem-faced social ideas, conventions, customs or social follies and vices to make his readers aware of these problems and to think of solutions to these problems. George Bernard Shaw (1856- 1950) is the originator of a new genre of drama termed the ‘Drama of Problem’ or ‘Drama of Ideas’. Bernard Shaw | Pygmalion As A Social Critique Bernard Shaw | Pygmalion As A Social Critique ![]()
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