Bernard Shaw was born in Dublin on July 26, 1856. He was essentially shy, yet created the persona of G.B.S. The showman, controversialist, satirist, critic, pundit, wit, intellectual buffoon and dramatist (http://www.sites.netscape.net/bernardshawinfo) . Shaw grew up in a family with a drunken father, whom worked in a corn mill, a mother whom left home when he was fourteen. Bernard never went to school past the age of fourteen. After his mother left his father had gotten worse (http://www.spartacu

Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion and Don Bluth's Anastasia exhibit that a person's appearance can be changed but they never lose their identity. Comparing a movie work to a literary work was very inspirational and interesting. Hopefully people will be able to except a person for whom they are, and not try to change their inner beings. Our individuality is what makes us, us.

Shaw was considered one of the best writers of his time. He wrote many plays such as Arms and the Man (1984), Satirizing romantic attitudes toward love and war. In 1897 The Devil's Disciple, a play on the American Revolution, was produced with great success in New York City (http://www.sites.netscape.net/bernardshawinfo). He also wrote a play known as Pygmalion, which satirizes the English class system through the story of a cockney girl's transformation into a lady at the hands of a speech professor. The movie My Fair Lady was produced to amplify what Pygmalion was all about. Of Shaw's later plays, Saint Joan (1923) is the most memorable; it argues that Joan of Arc, had to be killed because the world was not yet ready for her. Among Shaw's other plays are John Bull's Other Island (1940), The Doctor's Dilemma, Fanny's First Play, Back to Methuselah, The Apple Cart, Too True to Be Good, and The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Socialism and Capitalism (http://www.spartacus.schoonet.co.uk/jshaw.htm).

Pygmalion, a play written by Bernard Shaw tells the story of rags to riches. It begins with a young flower girl that is poor and she sells flowers to get by. A man that thinks she is repulsive approaches her. He bets a general that he would be able to change this despiteful young flower girl into a beautiful duchess. She goes to him to learn how to speak respectfully and etiquette. He decides not only will he help her but he will also change her into a duchess to fool the high society. She attends balls and parties to win over the rich that are present. Eliza doesn't feel right about what she has done, but it is to late. She has fallen in love with the speech therapist and is overwhelmed with the life style that was given and created for her. She feels that the feeling that once made her whole is no longer there, she feels that she is no longer Eliza Doolittle but someone he has created. He doesn't want her to go because he loves her, but she doesn't feel that he really loves her. Unlike most stories this one did not end happily

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