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Comment on George Bernard Shaw’s treatment of gender roles in his play Pygmalion.


Comment on George Bernard Shaw’s treatment of gender roles in his play Pygmalion.

G. B. Shaw’s attitude towards women and gender role in general can be explained with several stations in his biography. As I mentioned above, he had an unusual relationship with his mother that influenced his view on women in general.
Not being appreciated and loved by his own mother led to his odd attitude towards women. The affairs he experienced before and during his marriage included much more talking than love-making. He recreated triangles that resembled the one of his parents and Vandeleur Lee, but nevertheless lead a chaste life as his interests hardly ever were sexually. There was for example Ellen Terry, whom he wanted to entice from her husband for professional reasons.
There was always the professional idea in the foreground instead of a romantic attitude towards women, like Higgins’ attitude towards Eliza:
“Eliza: One would think you was my father.
Higgins: If I decide to teach you, I’ll be worse than two fathers to you.”
(Shaw, Pygmalion 176, f.)
G. B. Shaw idealized women and created the “stereotype, Woman-the-Huntress” (Holroyd, Shaw 112). He was comfortable in the role of the innocent man who is escaping the women’s grasp. He portrays love and sexuality as something negative and is proud of fleeing it. He constructs Higgins, a man who is also able to get away from women and the idea of romantic love. By doing this and putting Higgins’ ability as something positive, he glorifies his own personality at the same time: “I wont stop for you … I can do without anybody.................


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