George Bernard Shaw
Let me first say wow, 94 years old is a blessing. I hope first to live nearly as long and complete even a fourth of the things G.B.S. has accomplished. Mr. Shaw in our text is pretty long so I shall skip write to the writers breakdown. In “Pygmalion” it showed his ideas on how society should be and how it actually is. The story sets with two guys making a bet that one can or can not make a women a respectable person among her male peers. This play has had a movie made in the early 20th century and plenty of spin offs, including one of my favorite movies “Trading Places,” with Eddie Murphy and Dan Aykroyd. If you have noticed with some of my previous writings I like to make comparisons and differences between works of the distant past and works of the present. So, That is what I will be doing right now.
First lets discuss the character.
Similarities: Both are in a lower class and end up in a higher one.
Differences: One is a black male while in Shaw’s play the character is a white female.
Second the bet
Similarities: Both are approached with a proposition that would make their lives economically better than what they were.
Differences: They also make a second bet that they can make someone of a higher class sink to the levels of a lower class.
Lastly the ending
Similarities: Both of the characters get tired of the lack of control they have and eventually get the best of the two people who made the bet.
Differences: Well there are two differences if you were to go by the original play the women decides to not fall for the guy who trained her to fit in with the upper class…. But if you go by the early 20th century movie that came out that was based on the play you can see that the women does marry the guy who trained her. By comparing this to the movie Trading Places neither one of these endings happened but instead the two people that were being manipulated made the two people who placed the bet bankrupt.
Sure, this is not the traditional way of writing that we normally do on here but I felt for a change and thought it would be real cool to do it this way.
3 comments:
Antoine,
Interesting and original take on Shaw's play, and some good comparisons of Pygmalion and Trading Places. I would have liked to have seen more discussion specifically about Shaw's play, though.
Antoine,
Interesting discussion. I would have liked more analysis about it like you provide in your other blogs but it was still entertaining. The trading places reference was classic.
Antoine,
i thought it was hilarious how you drew comparisons between Shaw's "Pygmalion" and Trading Spaces. Don't get me wrong, i also thought it was very witty. I enjoyed seeing one of the poems from our book broke down in a new and unique way that i could relate to. Good job!
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