萧伯纳作品赏析Pygmalion PPT

Literary Career and Achievements
the second greatest English playwright behind only Shakespeare
“a day never passes without a performance of some Shaw play being given somewhere in the world.”
With wondrous art, he creates a beautiful statue in ivory, Galatea, representing feminine ideal.
When Pygmalion returns home, he kisses his statue and is delighted to find that she is warm and soft to touch.
He flirted with beautiful women but never had further committed relations.
He was member of Fabian Society, a middleclass socialist group that aimed at the transformation of English government and society.
萧伯纳作品赏析Pygmalion
Do you know the famous actress? Can you name some films which she acted in?
窈窕淑女 (My Fair Lady)
1964年
Questions:
1. Have you seen the film My Fair Lady ?
theater. a freethinker, defender of women’s
rights, and advocate of equality of income.
Born in Dublin in 1856 to a middle-class Protestant family.
He married Charlotte Payne-Townshend in 1898, but it is known that he never touched her once.
2. Who wrote the play?
George Bernard Shaw
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Do you know something about Shaw? George Bernard Shaw(1856-1950) a Irish dramatist, a literary critic, a socialist spokesman, a leading figure in the 20th century
The Pygmalion Myth
It derives its name from the famous story in Ovid’s Metamorphoses(奥德维变形记）.
Pygmalion is disgusted by the loose and shameful lives of the women in his era, women of Amathus, the first women to become prostitutes, and decides to live alone and unmarried.
One of Shaw’s greatest contributions as a modern dramatist is in establishing drama as serious literature, no less important than the novel.
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his works including: 60 plays, 5 novels, 3 volumes of music criticism, 4 volumes of dance and theatrical criticism, and heaps of social commentary, political theory, and correspondence.
“The maiden felt the kisses, blushed and lifting her timid eyes up to the light, saw the sky and her lover at
He asks the Greek Goddess to bring her to life.
His wish is granted.
Do you heard of “the Pygmalion Effect”?
The Pygmalion Effect (皮格马利翁效应) is that people tend to behave as you expect they will. If you expect a person to take responsibility, they probably will. If you expect them not to even try, they probably won’t.
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In 1925 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature. Shaw accepted the honor but refused the money . He was a very humorous playwright.
The Fair Lady by George Bernard Shaw is an adaptation of a Greek story. Do you know the story?
Pygmalion, a gifted artist, makes a stone statue of a beautiful woman.