Pygmalion

BERNARD SHAW

1912

ROSA PASTOR

ROSA PASTOR

26 July 1856 – 2 November 1950Irish playwright

He wrote about the exploitation of the working class.

 Charter member of the Fabian Society

Concerned about the vagaries of English spelling, Shaw willed a portion of his

wealth to fund the creation of a new phonemic alphabet for the English

language

PICKERING

HIGGINS 

FREDDY

LIZADOOLITTLE

MRS. HIGGINS

Social class differences

ROSA PASTOR

Henry Higgins, a professor of phonetics, makes a bet with his friend Colonel Pickering that

he can turn a Cockney flower girl, Eliza Doolittle, into a refined society lady merely by

teaching her how to speak with an upper class accent and training her in etiquette.

ROSA PASTOR

Finalizing details for the presentation of the work Checking the result

You can change the outside but not inside

Almost a success

ROSA PASTOR

ROSA PASTOR

End of the party

Satisfaction with the success achieved

ROSA PASTOR

“The difference between a lady and a flower girl is not how she

behaves, but how she is treated”

I will teach phonetics

ROSA PASTOR

“While respectability can be learned,

self-respect is something more authentic”

Is the male artist the absolute and perfect that has the power to

create woman the image of his desires?

Can there be a relationship between

a man and a woman over sex and romance?

Does it reflect the beauty of virtue?

What the artist loves, his creation or art that led to the creation exist?

ROSA PASTOR

ROSA PASTOR