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The play of Pygmalion, written by George Bernard Shaw is an appropriation of the famous story of Pygmalion in Ovid's Metamorphoses. The main character of the tale, as the title suggests, is Pygmalion.

Pygmalion, repulsed by the apparently loose and reprehensible lives of the women of his era, decides to live unaccompanied and unmarried. Using his exceptional skills as an artisan and sculptor, he fashions a statue made from ivory. His work is regarded as being more beautiful than any living woman.

The more Pygmalion looks at her, the more deeply he falls in love with her. Eventually, Pygmalion begins to wish that his beloved statue, were more than just an immobile figure. Pygmalion then goes to the temple of the goddess Venus and prays that she gives him a lover like his statue. Venus is touched by his love and brings the statue, now dubbed Galatea, to life.

The Pygmalion myth is fine when studied through the lens of centuries and the buffer of translations......

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