ANALYSIS OF CHARACTERIZATIONS AND PLOT IN PYGMALION BY GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

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ANALYSIS OF CHARACTERIZATIONS AND PLOT IN PYGMALION BY GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

ANALYSIS OF
CHARACTERIZATIONS AND PLOT IN
PYGMALION
BY GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

ABSTRACT

                This paper entitled “Analysis of Characterizations and Plot in Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw”. The aims of this apper are to analyze the characterizatins of Eliza and Higgins and to analyze the plot. The writer uses theory of characterizations and plot and close reading as the method.  As the result, we will understand more about characterizations of two main characters in this play and we will understand the plot. To conclude, Eliza and Higgins come from different life background, and the plot are forward.

Keywords: characterization, plot, dialect

1. INTRODUCTION

“Prose is the words in their best order”

– Samuel Taylor Coleridge–

Aristotle stated that Drama is imitated human actions. To understand the drama, we have to read the whole scripts and understand the elements. In this paper, the writer would analyze the plot of the play Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw.

                The methodologies on this paper are:

1. To understand the plot of the play.
2. To appreciate a work of literature.

                The Scope of the study is to analyze the symbols found in a short story “Old Man at The Bridge” by Ernest Hemingway.

2. THE AUTHOR

                George Bernard Shaw is a novelist, critic, and playwright. He was born on July 26th, 1856 in Dublin. He wrote more than sixty plays, including major works such as Man and Superman (1903), Pygmalion (1913) and Saint Joan (1923). Shaw became the leading dramatist of his generation with a range incorporating both contemporary satire and historical allegory. He was the first person to be awarded both a Nobel Prize and an Academy Award, receiving the 1925 Nobel Prize in Literature and sharing the 1938 Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for the film version of Pygmalion.

3. THE SUMMARY

                Pygmalion is a play created by George Bernard Shaw. The play shows Eliza Doolitle who met Professor Higgins. A conflict appears when Higgins knew that Eliza could not speak English properly.

3. THE PLOT

                Pygmalion is a play created by George Bernard Shaw. The play shows Eliza Doolitle who met Professor Higgins. A conflict appears when Higgins knew that Eliza could not speak English properly.

5. CONCLUSION

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