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Character Position Evidence in the play in society rude to Behaviour: _____ polite to lower class; _____ same or upper class Middle Henry class Language: calls Higgins you silly girl Eliza “___________” and Pickering my dear man “________________”
Do you know the famous actress? She is regarded as the one of the most elegant ladies in the world. What‟s her name? Can you name some films which she acted in?
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. • With wondrous art, he creates a beautiful statue in ivory, Galatea, representing feminine ideal.
• Pygmalion
– Henry Higgins — creating a lady from a flower girl; trained Eliza to speak correctly and beautifully like a lady; – Mrs Pearce — teaching Eliza how to dress and behave like a lady; – Colonel Pickering — treating Eliza, who learns selfrespect. (As Eliza asserts, ―the difference between a lady and a flower girl is not now she behaves, but how she is treated.‖ p. 59)
罗马假期 (Roman Holiday) 1953年
龙凤配 (Sabrina) 1954年
战争与和平 (War and Peace)1956年
修女传 (The Nun„s Story) 1959年
第凡内早餐 (Breakfast at Tiffany„s) 1961年
窈窕淑女 (My Fair Lady) 1964年
• Galatea
– Eliza Doolittle — undergoing transformation; – Higgins — also being subject to transformation.
The play by Shaw has the same theme as the Greek story. What this theme might be?
Character
Position in society
Evidence in the play Behaviour: generally polite confident and ______; ignores Eliza but _______ Language: prepared conversation to begin a __________ with Henry, whom he does not know; generous with praise to him
Colonel
Eliza
• 皮格马利翁效应(Pygmalion Effect),也有 译“毕马龙效应”、“比马龙效应”,由 美国著名心理学家罗森塔尔和雅格布森在 小学教学上予以验证提出。亦称“罗森塔 尔效应(RobertRosenthal Effect)‖或“期待 效应”。 “说你行,你就行,不行也行; 说你不行,你就不行,行也不行。” • 皮格马利翁效应.doc
Behaviour: respectful _______ to people of higher class
Eliza
Lower class
Language: calls gentleman “sir” and “cap’in” ___________ (or captain) which is a compliment(赞扬)
• 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. • 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. •
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.‖ • died at the age of 94 • 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. • One of Shaw’s greatest contributions as a modern dramatist is in establishing drama as serious literature, no less important than the novel. •
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
Colonel Pickering
Upper class
Choose adjectives to describe each character in the play. Henry Impatient, rude, confident, superior, self-important Kind, polite ,generous, enthusiastic, eager, confident Anxious, eager, emotional ambitious, unsure
Questions:
1. Have you seen the film My Faபைடு நூலகம்r Lady ? 2. Who wrote the play?
George Bernard Shaw
Do you know something about Shaw? George Bernard Shaw(1856-1950) Irish dramatist, literary critic, a socialist spokesman, a leading figure in the 20th century theater. a freethinker, defender of women‟s rights, and advocate of equality of income.
The Pygmalion Myth
• When Pygmalion returns home, he kisses his statue and is delighted to find that she is warm and soft to touch.
• ―The maiden felt the kisses, blushed and lifting her timid eyes up to the light, saw the sky and her lover at the same time.‖
This play, Pygmalion, was also made into a film called My Fair Lady. Have you seen the film?
Comprehending Character Position Evidence in the play in society
His wish is granted.
Do you heard of “the Pygmalion Effect”? The Pygmalion Effect 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.
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
He asks the Greek Goddess to bring her to life.
Pygmalion.doc
Fateful meetings
Eliza Doolittle(E): a poor flower girl who is ambitious to improve herself. Professor Higgins(H): an expert in phonetics, convinced that the quality of a person’s English decides his/her position in society. Colonel Pickering(P): an officer in the army and later a friend of Higgins’ who sets him a task.