Essay on pygmalion

It is inspired by a Greek mythology of a sculptor name”Pygmalion” who makes a porcelain statue embodying his own ideal of womanhood, which he names Galatea. He is too mesmerized by his own creation that he falls in love with it. Pygmalion requests the goddess Venus to bring Galatea to life, she does that.

PROBLEMS AND EMOTIONS IN PYGMALION Abstract: Pygmalion is one of the famous plays of George Bernard Shaw. The Cockney dialect of Eliza creates crisis in her life. Shaw’s Pygmalion is which deals with struggles and sufferings of Eliza’s accent and mostly the love of Eliza was not acknowledged by Higgins.

The Pygmalion effect also known as Rosenthal effect refers to the notion in which greater the expectation placed upon people, , often children or students and employees, the better they perform i.e. when you expect from them a lot they tend to be motivated and thus perform better than others. Thus the concept is focused on self-fulfilling prophecy.

“Pygmalion” is one of the best works done by George Bernard Shaw. It is inspired by a Greek mythology of a sculptor name”Pygmalion” who makes a porcelain statue embodying his own ideal of womanhood, which he names Galatea. He is too mesmerized by his own creation that he falls in love with it.