Pygmalion Essay

This Study Guide consists of approximately 80 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of Pygmalion.

Pygmalion Essay

This Study Guide consists of approximately 80 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of Pygmalion.
This section contains 2,325 words
(approx. 6 pages at 400 words per page)
Buy the Pygmalion Study Guide

Solomon addresses the controversy surrounding the ending of Shaw's Pygmalion in this essay. Examining the play's action, he concludes that the playwright's original denouement is the only appropriate one.

Solomon is an educator and critic who specializes in film theory,

Pygmalion is one of Shaw's most popular plays as well as one of his most straightforward ones. The form has none of the complexity that we find in Heartbreak House or Saint Joan, nor are the ideas in Pygmalion nearly as profound as the ideas in any of Shaw's other major works. Yet the ending of Pygmalion provokes an interesting controversy among critics. Higgins and Eliza do not marry at the end of the written text, while the play as it is usually produced often does reconcile the two main characters. Obviously many directors and many readers feel that the apparent unromantic ending is an arbitrary bit...

(read more)

This section contains 2,325 words
(approx. 6 pages at 400 words per page)
Buy the Pygmalion Study Guide
Copyrights
Gale
Pygmalion from Gale. ©2005-2006 Thomson Gale, a part of the Thomson Corporation. All rights reserved.