Pygmalion


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 * Elements ||  Pygmalion  ||
 * Background / writer / publication date / social context / genre || Bernard Shaw, writing in the late 1800’s and the early 1900’s, Pygmalion was completed in 1912, he wrote about social class divisions and sympathised with all classes. ||
 * Subject matter / content || Much of the play is about the girl Eliza coming from a low social class and rising through the ranks to a certain extent and how she becomes a different person while also allowing us to further explore the characters of the others in the play. ||
 * Themes / ideas / authorial intent || Social class divisions, realising that what you have is better than what you can have if you change your character, and Shaw wanted to indicate these things. Possibly. ||
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