Week 15 George_Bernard_Shaw.pptVIP

kind, polite, generous, enthusiastic, eager, confident impatient, rude, confident, superior, self-important anxious, eager, emotional, ambitious, unsure Comment Of all of Shaws plays, Pygmalion is without the doubt the most beloved and popularly received, if not the most significant in literary terms. Several film versions have been made of the play, and it has even been adapted into a musical. In fact, writing the screenplay for the film version of 1938 helped Shaw to become the first and only man ever to win the much coveted Double: the Nobel Prize for literature and an Academy Award. Pygmalion Effect The Pygmalion ?[piɡ?meilj?n] 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. Some famous quotations 　 I was born intelligent - education ruined me. Practice makes perfect..... But nobody’s perfect...... so why practice? Every man should marry. After all, happiness is not the only thing in life. Your future depends on your dreams. So go to sleep. ----------Bernard Shaw George Bernard Shaw  (1856 ～ 1950) * Benard Shaw in China 1933年2月17日，萧伯纳（左二）与宋庆龄（左三）、鲁迅（右一） The author The greatest critical realistic playwright since William Shakespeare. Born in Dublin, Ireland, In 1876, Shaw went to London, became interested in socialism, joined the Fabian Society in 1884. In 1892, started career as a dramatist. In the 30s,visited Soviet Union and China In 1925, accepted the Nobel Prize. Wrote 51 plays all his life. * * In 1893 Engels wrote about the Fabians: “The Fabians are an ambitious group here in London who have understanding enough to realize the inevitability of social revolution, but who could not possibly entrust this gigantic task to the rough proletariat [?pr??l??te?ri?t]无产阶级alone and are therefore kind enough to set the