Shaw’s play "Pygmalion" and the movie "Born Yesterday" both explore many of the same issues and characteristics. They are similar because they both portray that what other people think should not matter as much as what you think of yourself but, what show yourself to be is how people will think and view of you. This is shown by similarities between the characters Billie and Eliza and the combined attitudes of Harry and Paul to Henry Higgins. They also both share the plot of taking someone who does not belong and changing them to belonging.
Both pieces have quite similar themes. They both focus on the idea that the way you carry yourself and the way you speak shows to the outside world what
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The most obvious of these are the characters Billie Dawn and Eliza Doolittle. The most noteworthy comparison is the fact that they do not fit in with the higher class, and are in need of tutoring if they wish to fit in among these richer and smarter individuals. The fact is, though, that neither of these ladies are any lees of a person then the high class people, but are made to think that they are. The one difference between Eliza and Billie is that Eliza is in need of a full makeover, including appearance, manners, and speech. While Billie simply needs to become more intelligent so that she can understand and take part in discussions that occur at these fancy parties thrown by the upper class. Or simply said by Harry in the movie, " she needs to be smartened up!" …show more content…
Each women are also not afraid to face the men that dominate their lives, although Billie is apprehensive at first, she ends up gaining this trait when she confronts her boyfriend Harry about his suspicious dealings with the government. You can see Eliza’s strength from the beginning when she says to Higgins,
"You’re a great bully, you are. I wont stay here if I don’t like. I wont let nobody wallop me. I
I never asked to go to Bucknam Palace, I didn’t
I was never in trouble with the police, not me.
I’m a good girl."[page 32]
All in all, both get what they are looking for, although it is happier for Billie than it is for Eliza in the end.
A big part of the woman’s lives were the men who took care of them and taught them what they needed to know. The strange thing about this is that two men Paul and Harry are needed to create the same attitude as Higgins. Higgins had two major traits; he is a very intellectual man who is a genius at phonetics and
Grace has never had a real home her whole life. For Grace and her mom, “there was always a better job or place to live, better schools or less crime” (15). A second theme of the story is give people second chances. Lacey and Grace had a secret plan, Plan B, in which they would drive Grace’s grandma crazy enough that Grace could go back to living with Mrs.Greene and Lacey. Grace should have given Grandma another chance because she might not understand everything she's lost such as “waiting for her daughter to come home” but years later dead (196). Another theme of the story is spend the most time with loved ones while they’re here. Grace finally realized her grandma isn’t so bad. They both want “to find a way to get them back”, they’re loved ones, and that’s through each other (196). Grace has lost her dad, grandpa, and mom, but doesn’t realize that her grandma lost them too and could be
...aVaughn a story about a blind lady, Jolly’s point is that you have to be careful with who you trust and that you can’t change your past. Plus, LaVaughn states,“I suddenly see the sign of her life: Nobody told me.” She also understands that Jolly didn’t get herself into her mess. Jolly learns from LaVaughn how to prioritize and that getting an education was a good idea. Jolly becomes more dedicated and responsible after she goes to school and it made her life easier. Jolly and LaVaughn may have diverse personalities, but they still learned something from each other.
Thus, both novels, full of tragedy and sorrow, began with the promise of new land, new beginnings and a better life, but all three were impossible to find within the pages of these novels. In the end, it was broken relationships, broken families, broken communities, but most importantly, broken dreams and broken hopes that were left on the final pages of both woeful, yet celebrated, stories.
Though, Clare enjoy passing and its benefit, she long to associate with people of colour. As Clare pulls toward her white life, she is simultaneously pushing away her black identity.Consequently, her longing for blackness becomes a desperate craving to be a part of the black community. She is ultimately substituting Irene’s company for the overall black culture that she misses. Clare passing over and having a deep desire to be among blacks again proves this unconscious draw that she has to her former race.
Eliza Wharton has sinned. She has also seduced, deceived, loved, and been had. With The Coquette Hannah Webster Foster uses Eliza as an allegory, the archetype of a woman gone wrong. To a twentieth century reader Eliza's fate seems over-dramatized, pathetic, perhaps even silly. She loved a man but circumstance dissuaded their marriage and forced them to establish a guilt-laden, whirlwind of a tryst that destroyed both of their lives. A twentieth century reader may have championed Sanford's divorce, she may have championed the affair, she may have championed Eliza's acceptance of Boyer's proposal. She may have thrown the book angrily at the floor, disgraced by the picture of ineffectual, trapped, female characters.
First, When Martha and Mrs. Peters arrive at the scene of the crime, they see that it is a very lonely place off the road. The house is in a hollow, with lone-some looking trees around it(1).Mr. Hale thinks that having a phone to communicate with rest of the world in such place will reduce loneliness although Mr. Wright does not want communication(2). Minnie lives a miserable life in this place. Martha cannot believe that this is what Minnie foster has turned into. She describes her rocker, and says: “ that rocker don’t look in the least like Minnie foster. The Minnie foster of twenty years before”(3). The rocker is a very old rocker with a faded color and few parts of it are missing. Also, Mrs. Hale thinks it is a torture for Minnie to wrestle with the stove year after year because that stove is in a very poor condition(8). These are some few examples that show how miserable Minnie is in such a lonely place.
From the beginning of The Coquette Eliza Wharton is a headstrong, freedom-seeking woman. Having escaped her impending marriage with the death of her fiancé, Eliza is determined to enjoy herself, regardless of the consequences. Eliza disregards the warnings she receives from those around her, she disregards Major Sanford’s past, and she disregards the societal impact her actions will undoubtedly have. Eliza is reckless with her reputation and virtue and she pays the price.
Both processes are different, as well as the development of each character, as they are affected by race, gender, and social class. Although seemingly opposite characters, both Lizabeth from Eugenia Collier’s Marigolds, and the Lawyer from Anton Chekhov’s The Bet, have a surprising amount of similarities, which ultimately leads them to the reality of life and it’s
The central issues is presented through different point of views and a narrative of Beth’s day. Lena thinks her dad doesn’t understand math as well as Mrs. Martin but really he knows how but in a different way. Mr. Caridon doesn’t understand Lena’s homework and thinks there’s a flaw in the instruction. Beth doesn’t
Within every story or poem, there is always an interpretation made by the reader, whether right or wrong. In doing so, one must thoughtfully analyze all aspects of the story in order to make the most accurate assessment based on the literary elements the author has used. Compared and contrasted within the two short stories, “Girl” by Jamaica Kincaid, and John Updike’s “A&P,” the literary elements character and theme are made evident. These two elements are prominent in each of the differing stories yet similarities are found through each by studying the elements. The girls’ innocence and naivety as characters act as passages to show something superior, oppression in society shown towards women that is not equally shown towards men.
Differences and similarities exist between any two things. Our lives would be boring if they didn’t contain similarities and differences in hobbies, life experiences and opinions. A Worn Path, a short story written by Eudora Welty in 1941, talks about an elderly African-American woman, Phoenix Jackson who walks for many miles from her home in the country to a medical clinic in Natchez, Mississippi, to secure medicine for her grandson. The Chimney Sweeper, a poem written by William Blake in 1789, talks about the ways in which childhood innocence is taken away, ruined, or destroyed by mean old adults. Even though both extracts are written by great writers and share the same theme, they differ in imagery, tone, and diction.
In conclusion, these three ladies in the novel each represent a vastly different class and lifestyle. Sally and Geraldine represent a different way of going about things than Edith does, but both sides of the movement have viewpoints that serve their common movement and the actions of these ladies demonstrate as such. Despite differences in class and social standings, women by coming together in the suffrage movement frequently faced similar problems. At one point both Sally and Geraldine were struggling with the decision between their lifestyle and their cause as what was more important to them.
In the end of both stories no matter the efforts they use to obtain their desire, both fail miserably in their attempts to win the young woman over. It is the lesson of rude awakening that Joyce and Updike show in these crucial moments of despair. Both stories teach a life lesson that sometimes the painful road is needed to gain a life experience.
In the 1950s, anthropologist Colin Turnbull spent three years living in a rainforest with the BaMbuti Pygmies. His 1961 book entitled The Forest People provides an ethnographic study of the culture he experienced. He states in the book’s acknowledgements “this book tries to convey something of the lives and feelings of a people who live in a forest world, something of their intense love for that world and their trust in it” (Turnbull). Turnbull uses his experiences to tell an elaborate story with characters a reader can easily form attachments to. He obliterates the stereotype surrounding the Pygmy people and, instead, shows the reader the beauty of their culture and lifestyle. The Forest People is not simply a description of a cultural group vastly different than our own; it is also a window into their world.
Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw is a play that shows a great change in the character Eliza Doolittle. As Eliza lives in poverty, she sells flowers to earn her living. Eliza does not have an education. This shows through the way that she does not have the proper way of speaking. This happens through when Eliza is speaking to the other characters when she meets, then when she is still at a low level of poverty in her life.