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Pygmalion - George Bernard Shaw - Coggle Diagram
Pygmalion - George Bernard Shaw
Themes
Inequality between social classes
social expectation & gender roles
ladies just need to marry to a gentlemen
independence and self-identity
gender inequality
Higgins objectify Eliza and only sees her as an experiment, not a human
Higgins teaches Eliza to be a lady, and but he is not even a gentleman
Tunes
Humorus
contraditory
satire & critical
Color of the play
Some Interesting Quotes
The difference between a lady and a flower girl is not how she behaved, but how she's treated
I sold flowers. I didn’t sell myself. Now you’ve made a lady of me I’m not fit to sell anything else. I wish you’d left me where you found me.
Historical background
Victorian era (1837–1901)
early 20th-century England
characters
Professor Henry Higgins
Eliza Doolittle
Colonel Pickering
Alfred Doolittle
Mrs. Higgins
Freddy Eynsford Hill
