【2017年整理】Pygmalion.pptVIP

2007/9 Pygmalion（1913） Members: Question 4 --杨晨 An Ancient Greek Myth A New Cinderella Story An Ancient Greek Myth In the myth, Pygmalion, a sculptor from Cyprus, hates women, and especially hates the idea of getting married. He decides to carve a beautiful woman out of ivory, a woman so beautiful that he cant help but fall in love with her. He prays and begs and pleads with the goddess Aphrodite to please turn this statue into a real live woman. An Ancient Greek myth Aphrodite , sympathetic, or maybe just sick of Pygmalions whining, realise his wish, the sculpture got the life. The two were happily married and he also gave her a name-Galatea. A New Cinderella Story In the play Pygmalion, Mr.Higgins is the sculptor and the Street flower girl Eliza is Galatea the statue. Higgins trained her how to be like a duchess, just as the sculptor crave his statue and perfect it. Higgins is the creator of new Eliza, and he loved her. But they dont get married. Q6.2 A Modern Retelling? A Modern Retelling? No! The author adds a lot of things to the Play – like British society, relatives, background of Eliza... and the transforming was made by a man, not the godness, but the basics are the same. The play pays special attention to the problem of womens place in society . Mother or Housekeeper? Dreams, Hopes, and Plans. Sometimes just by trying you can get what you need, but thats not always the way it works. What if you get what you want only to find out it isnt what you imagined it would be? What if your dreams come true, only to turn into nightmares? A Good book always make us to think. Question 5 -- 肖丽玲 Shaw called this play “intensely and deliberately didactic.” What lessons does it teach? What is Shaw saying about the English language? About the nature of society? Does any call to improve society emerge from this play? ?This play tells us that: The forming of identity or self-identification is a very complex process, it affected