B8 unit4 pygmalion概要1.pptx

Unit 4 Pygmalion;Pygmalion ;Pygmalion:  Pygmalion was the king of Cyprus(塞浦路斯). He saw so much to blame in women that he became at last to abhor sex, and resolved to live unmarried. He was a sculptor, and had made a statue of ivory with wonderful skill, so beautiful that no living women came anywhere near it. Pygmalion admired his own work, and at last fell in love with the counterfeit creation. He asked Greek Goddess to bring her to life, and it was granted.;Pygmalion Effect（皮革马利翁效应） The Pygmalion Effect is that people tend to behave as you expect they will. If you expect a person to take responsibility, they probably will. If you expect them not to even try, they probably won’t.;George Bernard Shaw(1856 ～ 1950);Biography:;His education was irregular, due to his dislike of any organized training. After working in an estate agent’s office for a while he moved to London as a young man (1876), where he established himself as a leading music and theatre critic in the 80s and 90s and became a well-known member of the Fabian Society(费边社), for which he composed many pamphlets. ;In the nineties, Shaw turned to the theatre, first working as a dramatic critic, then writing plays for the stage. He was against “art for art’s sake”. He used the stage to criticize the evils of capitalism(资本主义). In his plays he laid bare(赤裸裸的) and gross(显而易见的) injustice and utter inhumanity of the bourgeois(资本主义) society. ;His Dramatic Works;Widowers’ Houses satirizes bourgeois businessmen whose money is squeezed out of poor, suffering people . While traveling in Germany, Harry Trench, a young English doctor, makes the acquaintance of an English businessman Mr. Sartorius and his daughter Blanche. Trench and Blanche fall in love, and are engaged to each other on returning to England. But from Sartorius’s clerk Lickcheese, Trench learns that Sartiorius is the owner of squalid 肮脏的tenement-houses廉价公寓 in the poorest quarter of London. His fortune has been ground out of the tears