Give a lecture to Swindon College students explaining how George Bernard Shaw uses the power of language to make his audience think about social change.

... 20th Century Drama Coursework - Pygmalion. Give a lecture to Swindon College students explaining how George Bernard Shaw uses the power of language to make his audience think about social change. Morals, Money, Class. Are they linked? George Bernard Shaw explores ideas on these subjects in his play Pygmalion. He also uses language to make the audience think about social class and change, that is what I am going to try and tell you about today. In Act I, initially the characters are not given names, but stereotypical titles such as 'The Flower Girl' and 'The Note-Taker' (Henry Higgins) Already this is showing divides between these people before we are told that they are going to feature as major characters in the play; for instance, a flower seller is a very degrading, lower class job for people who didn't have the right opportunities as a child, for whatever reason, or whose status in society wasn't

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