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Movies And Books
Many people compare an English literary work to different movies of their time.
An example of this is Pygmalion by Bernard Shaw. A story about a woman
transformed into a spectacular beauty pushed into royalty, but never loses her
identity, is very similar to a movie directed by Don Bluth called Anastasia.
Bernard Shaw’s play Pygmalion and Don Bluth’s movie Anastasia, show that one
can change a person’s appearance, but the person deep within has never left
the surface. The two have a large array of similarities and differences. What is
also fascinating is that the background of both the English writer and director
are very similar in how they began. I will compare both movie work and literary
work of two exceptional people. Bernard Shaw was born in Dublin on July 26,
1856. He was essentially shy, yet created the persona of G.B.S. The showman,
controversialist, satirist, critic, pundit, wit, intellectual buffoon and
dramatist (http://www.sites.netscape.net/bernardshawinfo) . Shaw grew up in a
family with a drunken father, whom worked in a corn mill, a mother whom left
home when he was fourteen. Bernard never went to school past the age of
fourteen. After his mother left his father had gotten worse (http://www.spartacus.schoonet.co.uk/jshaw.htm)
. So he embarked on a journey to London in 1876, where he would become an active
Socialist and a brilliant platform speaker. His heart was in writing and seven
years later he wrote five unsuccessful novels. He was successful with his
journalism; he contributed Pall Mall Gazette (http://www.sites.netscape.net/bernardshawinfo).
One of the many people that influenced him in his newspaper career was William
Stead. Shaw attended a lecture on nationalization that was given by Henry
George, which had a profound effect on his ideas of socialism. In the year of
1884 he joined the Fabian Society and in 1885 the Socialist League. Bernard gave
a lecture on socialism on November 13th which would result in the Bloody Sunday
Riot. Shaw was considered one of the best writers of his time. He wrote many
plays such as Arms and the Man (1984), Satirizing romantic attitudes toward love
and war. In 1897 The Devil’s Disciple, a play on the American Revolution, was
produced with great success in New York City (http://www.sites.netscape.net/bernardshawinfo).
He also wrote a play known as Pygmalion, which satirizes the English class
system through the story of a cockney girl’s transformation into a lady at the
hands of a spee...
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