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Discuss the ways in which Pygmalion by Bernard Shaw and Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys exploit the traditions and conventions of their genre both formally and in terms of context.
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Discuss the ways in which Pygmalion by Bernard Shaw and Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys exploit the traditions and conventions of their genre both formally and in terms of context. Bernard Shaw and Jean Rhys were both influential in their genre fields. Both the play and the novel develop themes of the rights of the individual and how that individual may be set aside from the rest of the society they inhabit. Throughout the development of civilisation there are accepted modes of representation and this is certainly applicable to both playwrights and novelist. Each has certain traditions that have preceded them and it is interesting to see how both Shaw and Rhys conform to a point, yet also resist those conventions within Pygmalion and Wide Sargasso Sea. Looking at the text of Pygmalion we can see that on the surface it does conform to the traditional 'rules' of the structure of...
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