Resenhas - Pygmalion

NotCrazyLimitedEdition 29/03/2023

Muito muito bonito. Uma leitura prazerosa de cabo a rabo com personagens bem interessantes e um epílogo surpreendentemente bem escrito. Prá quem quer uma leitura clássica e fácil recomendo muito

Ramon157 07/04/2021

I'm a good girl, I am
É possível ver influência da Megera Domada de Shakespeare, mas sem dúvida é um trabalho único e fino. Personagens divertidos e com diversas falas engraçadas. Vale a pena.

p.s.: no YouTube tem a gravação de uma apresentação da peça com as falas originais.

Iguer 02/06/2020

Interessante, mas não me cativou
O livro tem uma proposta interessantíssima de questionar costumes da burguesia Londrina do século XX e apostar a superficialidade e falta de conteúdo da mesma.

Particularmente, não me cativei muito pela história, talvez o formato (o livro mistura narrativa com formato de peça teatral) não tenha funcionado comigo. Apesar disso, é uma leitura que recomendaria, porque gosto de ideia e conceito do livro. Além disso ele é um livro curto e de enredo simples.

Nica 10/11/2011

Themes
Appearances and Reality
Pygmalion examines this theme primarily through the character of Liza, and the issue of personal identity (as perceived by oneself or by others). Social roles in the Victorian era were viewed as natural and largely fixed: there was perceived to be something inherently, fundamentally unique about a noble versus an unskilled laborer and vice versa. Liza's ability to fool society about her "real" identity raises questions about appearances. The importance of appearance and reality to the theme of Pygmalion is suggested by Liza's famous observation: "You see, really and truly, apart from the things anyone can pick up (the dressing and the proper way of speaking, and so on), the difference between a lady and a flower girl is not how she behaves, but how she's treated."


Class
The social hierarchy is an unavoidable reality in Britain, and it is interesting to watch it play out in the work of a socialist playwright. Shaw includes members of all social classes from the lowest (Liza) to the servant class (Mrs. Pearce) to the middle class (Doolittle after his inheritance) to the genteel poor (the Eynsford Hills) to the upper class (Pickering and the Higginses). The general sense is that class structures are rigid and should not be tampered with, so the example of Liza's class mobility is most shocking. The issue of language is tied up in class quite closely; the fact that Higgins is able to identify where people were born by their accents is telling. British class and identity are very much tied up in their land and their birthplace, so it becomes hard to be socially mobile if your accent marks you as coming from a certain location.