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1. "Pygmalion Essay - Critical Essays - ENotes.com." Enotes.com. Enotes.com. Web. 27 May 2015.
2. The main purpose of this work is two-fold. The first is to elaborate on the plot of Shaw's play, Pygmalion, and the second is to state and elaborate on the themes and underlying message he instilled within it. 3. The content of the work briefly discusses Shaw's background before detailing the plot of the play, and finishes with talking about the real world applications and adaptations of Pygmalion. Enote.com's evaluations on the play as a whole, the underlying themes, and their real world applications outline a clear and concise explanation and overview as to both what Shaw wrote and didn't write, and thus what he told his audience in so doing. After outlining the majority of the plot, the review points out a few things that readers would not know without doing proper research. According to this criticism, Shaw wrote Pygmalion's sequel simply because all of his readers were positive that Higgins and Eliza would end up together soon after the play reached its conclusion, despite his implications that nothing of the sort would happen. In writing the sequel, he clarified misconceptions people conceived despite contrary evidence, but it also gave Pygmalion the closure he never wanted it to have. 4. The audience of this work is likely high school or college students reading and discussing the work, and is meant to both outline plot and meaning. 5. While the plot elaboration is relatively unimportant in this context, the themes and tones discussed in the review are quite insightful and open up the reader to new levels of thinking in regards to the play. 6. One of this review's special features is the fact that it states the purpose Shaw had for writing Pygmalion's sequel, information readers would not otherwise be equipped with. 7. The weakness of this review is that the thinking the narrator discusses with is very linear. It is more of an informative article than a criticism forged for the purpose of critical thinking. |
1. "Курсовая работа: Literary Analysis of the Play "Pygmalion" by G.B. Shaw." - BestReferat.ru. Web. 27 May 2015. 2. The main purpose of this work is to discuss and analyze Pygmalion as a great literary work, listing the uses of important literary devices and plot structures that won it into history as a literary work of art. 3. Bestreferat.ru makes quite a few interesting claims as to Shaw's intentions when writing Pygmalion. It also brings into light that Pygmalion placed extremely high in the levels of literary merit, and his work apparently won him a Nobel Prize in literature and an Academy Award: a feat literally nobody else has accomplished. Many of the comments this criticism makes are well educated and supported, but a few of them I personally do not agree with. For example, this review claims that Eliza is the protagonist of Pygmalion, but I would argue that Shaw intended for Higgins to be the main character, as it is his story the perspective follows, not hers. The article also points out that Shaw wrote Pygmalion with the intent of it being "part-social protest, part-satire, and part-comic farce". It seems as though this play has been the most well received of all his works, so his efforts have not gone unfruitful. 4. This literary criticism could be meant for (Russian) critics and scholars, as this review goes quite in depth as to possible reasons Shaw had for using certain devices in the manner that he did and what he truly meant as a result of them. 5. This information is quite relevant, as it outlines the use of Shaw's literary devices thoroughly, for example: discussing possible themes and Shaw's protagonist choice. 6. This work doesn't have any special features, though it does list important real life facts about Shaw early on in the review to claim possible reasons he had for creating such a work. 7. This review's weakness is that it is quite lengthy. For a review it is necessary to read its entirety to get the best effect from it, as skipping out on information would result on missing some strong points the criticism has on Shaw's devices. |
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1. "Canadian Social Science." Canadian Social Science. Web. 29 May 2015.
2. The main purpose of this work is to detail the sexism Shaw portrays in Pygmalion, and to analyze the play from the feminist perspective. 3. The essay discusses the impact Pygmalion had on the rest of the world, but brings into view the possible offense it might have caused, whether intentional or not, Shaw placed by depicting Eliza not as a woman but as an object to be used. The play goes through many of the defining plot issues in the play, describing the events Shaw writes concerning largely Higgins' mistreatment and lack of respect for Eliza even as a human being, let alone a woman. The review then attacks these events as sexist and extents the speculation that Shaw wrote his own sexist feelings and perspectives into his character of Professor Higgins. 4. The audience for this work is likely other feminists that are unaware of Pygmalion and the proposed hateful and offensive remarks and themes it displays towards women. 5. This information is somewhat relevant as it discusses the theme of transforming a street urchin into a duchess, but side tracks towards persuasion far too often. 6. The review does not have any special features. 7. The weakness of this criticism is obviously that it is extremely biased. It offers no counter argument to how Shaw writes and does not allow for any feedback in regards to setting up the argument. |
1. "Academy Publisher Online." Academy Publisher Online. Web. 29 May 2015.
2. The main purpose of this essay is to discuss with the audience how George Bernard Shaw wrote Pygmalion, and in the context of which reverted back to his earlier works of anti-romantic Shavian treatment. 3. The essay portrays Shaw's beginnings and explains possible real-life depictions he put in his work. It elaborates that he possibly portrayed Higgins as an alteration of himself and his own personality. Furthermore, it informs the audience on the possibility of Eliza's character being based off of the actress whom Shaw was in love with, Mrs. Patrick Campbell. After going into the plot structure of the play, the review discusses Higgins in two lights: that of the phonetic master, proficient in all manners of English speech, and the grown child who will always be far too attached to his mother to really become a "grown man". 4. The audience for this work was intended to be that of intellectuals interested in expanding their knowledge of the literary work and gaining insight on characterization in literature. 5. The information is quite relevant, as the information almost exclusively focuses on the main character, Higgins, and the light in which Shaw depicts him. He is shown to have more than one flat personality, which is meant to portray him as a complex, realistic individual. 6. This review has no exceptional special features. 7. The weakness of this essay is that it focuses entirely on how Shaw portrays Higgins, which does come to be repetitive after several paragraphs of different contextual evidence being related to the same conclusion. |
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1. McNulty, Charles. "Review: 'Pygmalion' a Thorough Delight." Los Angeles Times. Los Angeles Times, 20 Jan. 2013. Web. 29 May 2015.
2. The main purpose of this article is to qualify the importance and validity of Pygmalion as a literary work, as opposed to its adaptation, My Fair Lady, as a movie and a musical. 3. The content of this review goes into detail that its drastically different tone makes it no less worthy of critical acclaim, and the values inherent in the musical adaptation were instilled--and, indeed, are portrayed far more fluently--in the original version. The article also makes some exceptionally insightful points, and the delivery of which are not only thought provoking, but also undeniably accurate. These statements are promptly followed by depicting the parallels between the original play and the musical adaptation, along with how their differences translate to no loss of excellence. 4. The best possible audience for this work would likely be everyday people who have seen the movie, but are not interested in reading the original play. this review does its best to convince its audience that Pygmalion is an important literary work that everybody should read. 5. The information is somewhat relevant, as the play qualifies much of the tone and atmosphere portrayed in the play, and thus the important themes Shaw discusses throughout it. 6. This article has no exceptional features. 7. The weakness of this review is that it focuses too exclusively on comparing and contrasting Pygmalion with My Fair Lady, as opposed to going into further detail upon the most important features of Pygmalion as a whole. |