Gender Discrimination In Pygmalion

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Introduction:In PygmalionGeorge Bernard Shawdepicts how wealthy men behave with women. Shaw also showshow women are treated in society and how class differences limited people to develop. In this play, there is unequal relationship between man and woman where man is superior and woman is inferior. The language professor is an upper-class gentleman who transforms the lower-girl into a duchess. Here the flower girl is in the position of a child beingcorrected, educated and remade by man. Mr. Higgingsuses Eliza as an object or experiment. Eliza succumbs to Higgins' brutality and works with him very hard to learn phonetics and manners until at last she realizes that she is still a flower girl no matter how perfect she speaks English. When Mr. Higgings …show more content…

In the Victorian period, people live in harsh condition and modernism arrived in England. Working classes tried to develop their social class and condition, but the outstanding idea of that time was: each person who was born in social class can’t change his or her class. There were many differences between high and low class of society. For example, the theater was only belonged to the educated people and common people were not allowed to go to the theater or a person from low class can’t marry to one from high class. Here George Bernard Shaw as an active member of Fabian society, destroys all of these convictions and insists on the equality of people’s income and right especially equality of man and woman in society. George Bernard Shaw showshow women are treated in society and how class differences limited people to develop. In Arms and the Man, class struggle is shown by introducing of play different characters. Pygmalion is no doubt the creation of woman, either the creation of a duchess from a flower girl, or the creation of a woman from duchess, in which man is creator, whereas woman is in the position of a child, a pupil, being corrected, educated and remade by man. As a free thinker, George Bernard Shaw supports women’s right, equality of income, sharing private property, and change in voting

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