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Pygmalion

Ashley Taylor
Mr. K.
Adv. English IV
First Hour
19 February 2007
George Bernard Shaw believed that all art should be didactic. Phonetics is very important and the way we speak affects our personal appearance to the public's opinion. As Higgins sings in Act One Scene One in the musical, My Fair Lady, he states, "It's ‘Aooow' and ‘Garn' that keep her in her place. Not her wretched clothes and dirty face. Why can't the English teach their children how to speak? This verbal class distinction by now should be antique. If you spoke as she does, sir, instead of the way you do, why, you might be selling flowers, too." Phonetics is the basis of the story and the question is: can a flower girl really be turned into a duchess by improving her speech? Shaw was a brilliant author and had an exceptional point to his playwright, Pygmalion, but Alan Jay Lerner's version of My Fair Lady has a much more respectable ending. The book also refers more towards social class differences, while the......


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