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“You squashed cabbage leaf” - How the main characters view and treat each other in Bernard Shaw’s play “Pygmalion”

Name: “You squashed cabbage leaf” - How the main characters view and treat each other in Bernard Shaw’s play “Pygmalion”
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Author: Lena Spiekermann
ISBN: 978-3-656-48303-8

Essay, 2007

8 Pages, Grade: 1,7

Lena Spiekermann (Author)

Abstract or Introduction

“I shall always be a flower girl to Professor Higgins, because he always treats me as a flower girl, and always will; but I know I can be a lady to you, because you always treat me as a lady, and always will” (152).
In this quotation the female main character of Bernard Shaw’s play “Pygmalion”, Eliza, evalutes how she is treated by the two male main characters Higgins and Pickering. But her opinion is only partly correct and apart from that she speaks from a one-sided point of view. This essay will try to be more discriminating by looking closer at the view and treatment of Eliza towards Higgins and Pickering. It will also take the attitude of the two towards Eliza into consideration by examining the relationships always from both sides to show how the main characters view and treat each other in the play.

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Title: “You squashed cabbage leaf” - How the main characters view and treat each other in Bernard Shaw’s play “Pygmalion”
College: Ruhr-University of Bochum
Grade: 1,7
Author: Lena Spiekermann (Author)
Year: 2007
Pages: 8
Catalog Number: V180520
ISBN (eBook): 9783656054665
ISBN (Book): 9783656483038
File size: 420 KB
Language: English
Keywords: Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion, Eliza, Higgins, Pickering, Lisson Grove

Quote paper: Lena Spiekermann (Author), 2007, “You squashed cabbage leaf” - How the main characters view and treat each other in Bernard Shaw’s play “Pygmalion”, Munich, GRIN Verlag, https://www.grin.com/document/180520

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