According to shaw who is the hero of this play

Additional Classics Flashcards. Definition Love. Term Myth. Definition traditional stories of unknown authorship, ostensibly with a historical basis, usually serving to explain some phenomenon of nature, origin of humanity, or customs, religious rites, of a people. Definition Archetypes. Definition Monomyth. Definition Freud. Term Not typically found in the life of the mythic hero, according to Otto Rank:.

Definition A spiritual revelation followed by renunciation of the self. Definition Arthur. Definition A pair of sandals. Definition Acceptance. Definition Occurs in young boyhood.

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Definition Primitivism. Term Famous archetype associated with Rousseau:. Definition The noble savage. Indeed, the statue was so perfect that no living being could possibly be its equal. Consequently, at a festival, he prayed to the goddess of love, Aphrodite, that he might have the statue come to life. When he reached home, to his amazement, he found that his wish had been fulfilled, and he proceeded to marry the statue, which he named Galatea. Even though Shaw used several aspects of the legend, most prominently one of the names in the title, viewers, writers, critics, and audiences have consistently insisted upon there being some truth attached to every analogy in the myth.

First of all, in Shaw's Pygmalion, Professor Henry Higgins is the most renowned man of phonetics of his time; Higgins is also like Pygmalion in his view of women — cynical and derogatory: Higgins says, "I find that the moment I let a woman make friends with me, she becomes jealous, exacting, suspicious, and a damned nuisance.

Here, however, the analogies end. Shaw's "Galatea," Eliza, develops a soul of her own and a fierce independence from her creator. In the popular film version and in the even more popular musical comedy version My Fair Lady , the ending allows the audience to see a romantic love interest that blends in with the ancient myth.

This, however, is a sentimentalized version of Shaw's play. Shaw provided no such tender affection to blossom between professor and pupil. Shaw ultimately wrote a preface to almost all of his plays that he considered important. In fact, sometimes the Prefaces, the Prologues, and the Afterwords exceeded the length of the original dramas.