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How does Shaw develop the audiences understanding and maintain their interest at the beginning of act 2?
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How does Shaw develop the audiences understanding and maintain their interest at the beginning of act 2? George Bernard Shaw wrote Pygmalion in the early 20th century; it's first performance being in Vienna, German spoken in the year 1913. The play was written with the intention of highlighting the injustices that occurred in society of the time. The injustices being the limitations people faced because of their upbringing or their colloquial dialect. Another theme of the play is the teaching of roles of women in society. George Bernard Shaw was a strong believer in equality. The class system is also a theme, the fact that somebody was born with a specific status, in the play we see Eliza moving up the social ladder. The plot of the play involves a bet in which a highly skilled upper class phoneticist is challenged to teach a common flower girl to speak with...
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