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Unit 4 Pygmalion
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鍒嗛挓
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A
Pygmalion
is
a
drama
in
which
Shaw
has
made
sentiments
one
of
the
principle
themes
of discussion. The Greek sculptor Pygmalion carved a statue and fell in love with
it. Aphrodite (the goddess of love) turned the statue into a living woman named
Galatea, who then became Pygmalion
鈥?/p>
s wife.
The
Shavian
Pygmalion
is
Henry
Higgins,
a
professor
of
phonetics,
who
picks
up
a
flower
girl,
Eliza
Doolittle,
teaches
her
to
speak
as
educated
people
do,
and
then
successfully
passes_her_off_as a duchess. But she is a human being and cannot
be treated as a machine. In the course of all his experiments and
exhibitions,
the
professor
only
thinks
of
his
own
skill
success
and
failure,
but
never
stops
to
consider
how
the
girl
feels.
When
the
experiment
is
over,
he
has
a
profound
sense
of
relief
that
he
has
achieved
triumph
and
has
won
his
bet.
Even now
锛?/p>
the sentiment of the girl is of no account. The girl naturally protests
against this dehumanized relationship between her and her teacher. She hurls the
professor
鈥?/p>
s slippers at him when he wants them and then leaves his place. But
evidently, she has begun to feel for the professor and wants also to be felt for.
Now the question is what is the nature of Eliza
鈥?/p>
s feelings for the professor
with
whom
she
has
lived
in
close
association
for
so
long?
In
the
last
act,
the
girl
says she would not marry him even if he had proposed (
姹傚
) to her. The professor,
curiously ineffectual (
鏃犳晥鐨?/p>
) to sexual emotions, does not love any girl because
he finds them to be rivals (
瀵规墜
) to his own mother. He wonders, if Eliza does not
want to marry him, then what does she want from him? Old Mrs. Higgins, who knows
much about a woman says that it would have been better if he had thanked her and
petted
her
and
told
her
how
wonderful
she
had
been.
Then
perhaps
she
would
not
have
fought with him. Every girl loves to be loved. Eliza herself says that she loves
Freddy and he also loves her. Professor Higgins, however, remains as ever, an old
bachelor.
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