pygmalion vs educating rita

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Entertainment from today's astounding visual effects in movies to men acting as women in Shakespearean plays some centuries ago, have always been and will always be appreciated by many. Even George B. Shaw's play Pygmalion, has given a few laughs, but not only made for engaging an audience in something fun and making money, instead to a noticeable extent for people to learn.

"Pygmalion" in fact, is a play filled with its popular misconceptions, like in Act 1 where a professor in phonetics happens to recognize unknowably a person he was meant to meet in India, while arguing with him on a street in London. Here the class differences are very emphasized since the play is based on a social interaction between the classes, and this causing social problems. These social problems are mentioned as the sexual tensions arise in the play. One of the most important concepts Shaw though is the Socio-linguistics, since the story is based on a bet of a common flower girl transforming into a duchess thanks to a properly taught English.

In most stories misconceptions are found to make the plot more interesting. Shaw also uses this technique for his story to attract the reader making one event crucial for the development of the story.

The undeserving poor, the people who spend most of the time drinking the money they have earned do not have any remorse of not living a life with middle class moralities with its responsibilities and duties. Mr Doolittle is a stereotype for this kind of living.

(Liza constantly repeats this in the first acts of the play)

"...Men begin in Kentish town with L80 a year, and end in Park lane with a hundred thousand; but they give themselves away every time they open their mouths..."

( Act 1, pg. 17 Miss Eynsford Hill says about Eliza)

" Don't say that, Governor. Don't look at it that way. What am I, Governors both? I ask you, what am I. I'm one of the undeserving poor: that's what I am. Think what that means to a man. It means that he's up agen middle class morality all the time...I don't eat less hearty than him; and drink a lot more. I want a bit of amusement, cause I'm a thinking man..."

As mentioned the class differences are utterly shown and while this interaction between the two classes occurs the issue of the social problem arises.

The lower class had to be careful of catching diseases and protect themselves from the cold, London's streets were harsh to live in. Bathing was, in fact, as the quote explains something to be afraid of, as nudity and issues involving their hygiene. This scene is like death for Liza, who has never even seen her own face in the mirror, which the author with his writing portrays realistically. These are one of the many social problems Liza is not ready to deal with. The act of having to give up everything she has learned throughout her life living on the streets is hard. She is suddenly facing new problems and a different way of thinking and living that is clearly illustrated in the bathing scene.

A common example of a popular misconception is when two people accidentally meet in odd circumstances. In this case two people coincidentally bump into each other on the street: a flower girl and a man who is in a

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Approximate Word count = 1325
Approximate Pages = 5 (250 words per page double spaced)

Category: English