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The portrayal of willfulness in Shaw’s plays is not the result of the feminist agenda but, rather, part of the way in which his belief in the life force and the advent of a superman manifests itself. Discuss with reference to Pygmalion.

Professo

r Henry

Higgins Eliza

Doolittle

Colonel

Pickering

“DISGUSTING SOUNDS”

“COMMON IGNORANT”

“a student of

Indian dialects”“military type”

Colonel Pick

ering

Professor Henry Higginsmaster

of phonetic

s

“the

energetic

scien

tific

type”

She acquires the status of a respectable lady rather than being a poor flower girl.

WILLFULNESS

will power to create something differentrevolt against prevailing norms and traditions

PARTICULAR

PICTURE OF WOMEN

New Woman

Bernard

Shaw has

given

equal

significan

ce to both

men and

women

MRS. HIGGINS

LEADING A LI

FE

INDEPENDENTLY

ACCORDING TO

HER OWN

CHOICE

Colonel Pickering says to flower girl “you have a right to live where you please”

Women are shown willful by walking side by side with men in all fields of life

Rejected Darwin's theory of evolution

J. O. BAILEY’S

ARTICLE

“All organism have a degree of consciousness, memory and will. If they try long and hard enough to develop an eye, a nose, a digestive tract, or the innate ability to ride a bicycle, they will eventually succeed, one generation passing on to another… a tiny residue of organic modification… which gradually accumulates until it suddenly produces the organ or instinct required”

LIFE FORCE IS A WILL, OR A POWER, OR

DETERMINATION OF LIFE THAT STRIVES FOR

ACHIEVING GREATNESS IN LIFE

Mr. Pickering Professor Higgins

force that compels them to visit different countries to share their experiences or ideas about sounds of speech, accents, dialects and pronunciation.

Mr. Doolittle, the father of flower girl, improves his life style by becoming a gentleman far away from the life pattern of a ‘dustman’.

“mud out of the gutter”.

“a pebble on the beach”

“duchess”

“master piece”.

“millstone””

“ungrateful wicked”

In short, in respect of intelligence, character,

manners and lifestyle, super human beings are above

than average people.

Professor Henry Higgins

intelligent

knowledge of speech sounds

he is sometimes seen behaving cruelly

teach or correct the speech of common people

while discussing about linguistic affairs, he says to flower girl Eliza “if I decide to teach you, I will be worse than two fathers”. He has a wild passion for his subject of language while neglecting the feelings of other people.

is in the habit of swearing

he throws his clothes on the floor

“he is of the energetic scientific

type”

He has no value for social manners

no knowledge how to speak, have no right to live.

he has created his own values

different from ordinary people

super intelligence she completely changes her

ways of life has no respect for moral and

social manners she is found to be revolting

against prevailing norms and customs

she herself decides about her marriage with Mr. Freddy

Eliza

Doolitt

le

in view of Shaw, both men and women has numerous positive as well as negative traits.

If man is “book learned gentleman” woman can also have “idiomatic notions”. If women are compared with “bilious pigeon” and they are tamed “like parrot”, men are also called “selfish pig”, “selfish brute” and “sentimental hog”.

If one can preach, at the same time the other has also a right to teach. Both have their own private imaginations. Both are born equal. It is the construction of society to present women always negatively and always to give a positive glimpse of men in all spheres of life.

Otherwise, it is natural that men and women both possess good and bad qualities. In view of Shaw, it is not the impact of feminist agenda due to which he has portrayed a willful picture of women; rather he has just depicted the natural situation in his play by keeping in mind the beliefs of Life Force and the Superman. On account of willful or new glimpse of women equal to that of men, his play also gives the

concept of willfulness against the writings of previous eras.

conclusion

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