Pygmalion-皮革马利翁-窈窕淑女

1、Pygmalion,连于洋 徐盈盈 胡海莹 朱朔宁 金美西 白皛,Company Logo,About the author,(1856-1950),George Bernard Shaw,A brief introduction,1. Irish dramatist, literary critic, a socialist spokesman 2. Defender of womens rights, and advocate of equality of income. 3. In 1925 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. S

2、haw accepted the honor but refused the money. 4. He was a very humorous playwright.,George Bernard Shaw,(1856-1950),卡希尔拜伦的职业（Cashel Byrons Profession） 鳏夫的房产（Widowers Houses） 圣女贞德（Saint Joan） 卖花女（Pygmalion） （1964年改编成电影窈窕淑女，当年获奥斯卡最佳影片、最佳导演、最佳改编音乐等八座小金人。）魔鬼的门徒（The Devils Disciple） 人与超人（Man and Superman

3、） 伤心之家（Heartbreak House） 华伦夫人的职业（Mrs Warrens Profession） 巴巴拉少校（Major Barbara） 苹果车（The Apple Cart） 医生的两难选择（The Doctors Dilemma） 长生或千岁人（Back to Methuselah） 凯撒和克娄巴特拉（Caesar and Cleopatra）,Company Logo,Literary works,The film,Some were made into films,An Ancient Greek Myth,Pygmalion was the King of Cypr

4、us who is good at engraving art. Pygmalion saw too much blame in women that he came at last to abhor(憎恨) the sex and resolved to live unmarried.,One day, he chose a large , beautiful piece of ivory, and worked diligently at it, chiseling(用凿子凿开) and hammering（捶打）until he finished. It was a statue of

5、a beautiful lady which was so perfect that it looked like the workmanship of nature.,Pygmalion dressed the statue, gave it jewels and named it Galatea (sleeping love). He laid her on a couch and called her his wife, and put her head upon a pillow of softest feathers, as if she could enjoy their soft

6、ness.,The festival of Venus (Aphrodite) was at hand-a festival celebrated with great pomp at Cyprus（塞浦路斯）. Pygmalion stood before the altar and prayed for his wife. When Venus heard him, she went the home of the sculptor to see what its like. She was delighted when she saw Galatea. She thought it lo

7、oked a lot like her, so she brought it to life.,When Pygmalion returned home, he went to see the statue, and leaning over the couch, gave a kiss to her mouth. It seemed to be warm. He pressed her lips again, it felt so soft to his touch. Galatea was alive and smiled at him!,They soon get married, an

8、d Pygmalion didnt forget to thank Venus for his good fortune. He and Galatea brought gifts to her altar as long as they lived. Venus blessed happiness and love in return. Paphos was born from this union. The name was from the city of Venus.,The Pygmalion effect皮格马利翁效应,The Pygmalion effect (also know

9、n as Robert Rosenthal effect) is expressed by saying: People tend to behave as you expect they will. You get what you expect. 当我们怀着对某件事情非常强烈期望的时候,我们所期望的事物就会出现。 皮格马利翁效应 指人们基于对某种情境的知觉而形成的期望或预言，会使该情境产生适应这一期望或预言的效应。,Pygmalion,The Pygmalion myth was a popular subject for Victorian era English playwrights

10、. Pygmalion ,a Romance in Five Acts (1912) is a play by Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw. Professor of phonetics Henry Higgins makes a bet that he can train a bedraggled Cockney flower girl, Eliza Doolittle, to pass for a duchess at an ambassadors garden party by teaching her to assume a veneer

11、of gentility, the most important element of which, he believes, is impeccable speech. The play is a sharp lampoon of the rigid British class system of the day and a comment on womens independence, packaged as a romantic comedy.,Plot,Poor cockney flower girl Eliza is a fair young lady, and also quite

12、 clever. She has to walk all streets to sell her flowers and lives on this. One day, she was drawn attentions of Professor Henry Higgins, who then takes a bet from Colonel Pickering that he can transform the dirty Cockney flower girl into a fair, good-behavior lady, and he will also let everyone tru

13、st she really is one, too! He does, and thus young aristocrat Freddy falls madly in love with her. But when Higgins takes all the success to himself and forgets to acknowledge her efforts, Eliza angrily leaves him for Freddy, and suddenly Higgins realizes he cant really live, he has already fallen i

14、nto love with her completely! Finally, Eliza come back to Higgins.,Eliza Doolittle(E): a poor flower girl who is ambitious to improve herself. Professor Higgins(H): an expert in phonetics, convinced that the quality of a persons English decides his/her position in society. Colonel Pickering(P): an o

15、fficer in the army and later a friend of Higgins who sets him a task. Freddy(F): a gentleman, who loves Eliza and wants to woo her.,Main characters,Eliza,Professor Higgins,Colonel Pickering,Low class,Upper class,Lower class,Language: calls gentleman “sir” and “capin” (or captain),Behaviour: respectf

16、ul to people of higher class,Comprehending,Language: calls Eliza “you silly girl” and Pickering “my dear man” (an equal and friend),Behaviour: rude (and patronizing) to lower class; polite to same or upper class,middle class,Upper class,Language: prepared to begin a conversation with someone, whom he does not know; generous with praise to him,Behaviour: generally confident and polite;,kind, polite, generous, enthusiastic, eager, confident,impatient, rude, confident, superior, self-importa