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Pygmalion
Title: Pygmalion
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 498 | Pages: 2.1 (approximately 235 words/page)
Pygmalion
THEMES
Major Theme
In Pygmalion, Shaw presents the classic theme of drama - the
complexity inherent in human relationships. The play's major
thematic concern is of course, romantic, as suggested by the title
itself. In the Pygmalion narrative as told by Ovid in
Metamorphoses, Pygmalion is described as having a repulsion for
women and he thus decides to remain single. Ovid explains that
Pygmalion's disgust for women is due to the behavior of the
propoetides, women …showed first 75 words of 498 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 498 total…it that has come my way." Eliza cannot seek
consolation in such impersonal generalities. Higgins's declaration
that he has grown accustomed to her voice and face does not
impress Eliza, who prefers Freddy's simple-minded proclamation
of devotion to Higgins' profound indifference. Shaw himself favors
Eliza's union with Freddy since as he writes in the sequel to the
play, "Galatea never does quite like Pygmalion; his relation to her
is too godlike to be altogether agreeable".
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