Shaw’s limited feminism as seem in Pygmalion
Abstract: As we known, Bernard Shaw is a feminism writer in whose many works women are the leading characters. In these plays, he created lots of new women characters featured with bright personality and unique charms. Therefore, Shaw’s feminism is becoming a valuable researching task. As we going deep into the research of Shaw’s feminism, we found that it has limitation, he could only be called a limited feminist. My essay chooses Pygmalion to analyze Shaw’s feminism and its limitations. By aiming at the limitation of Shaw’s feminism, my essay will reread the features of his thoughts on the basis of his known feminism opinions. Then go deep into the research of the cause of Shaw’s limited feminism by touching his life and social backgrounds.
Key Words: Bernard Shaw; feminism; limitation
从《皮格马利翁》看萧伯纳女权主义思想的局限性
摘 要：众所周知，萧伯纳是一位持女权主义观点的作家，他的很多重要作品都以女性为主人公。在这些剧作中，他塑造了众多个性鲜明、魅力独特的新女性形象。萧伯纳的女权主义思想也因此成了有价值的研究课题。随着对萧伯纳女权主义思想研究的深入，我们发现他的女权主义又有一定的局限性，只能说他是一位不彻底的女权主义者。本文选取《皮格马利翁》这部作品来分析萧伯纳的女权主义思想及其局限性。在已知的萧伯纳的女权主义观点的基础上，针对其局限性来重新解读萧伯纳的思想特色，并从他的生平和他所处的社会背景出发，深入研究萧伯纳女权主义思想局限性的产生原因。
关键词： 萧伯纳；女权主义；不彻底性
CONTENTS
Introduction 1
1.Acknowledgement of Shaw’s obvious feminism 1
1.1 Independent Eliza 1
1.1.1 Eliza, a Hard Working girl 1
1.1.2 Eliza’s Happiness, Coming from Optimistic Living Attitude ………. 1
1.2 Lazy Doolittle 2
1.2.1 Drunker Doolittle, a Lazy Father 2
1.2.2 Doolittle’s Happiness, coming from Idling life 2
1.3 Shaw’s Feminism Shown by Comparison of Eliza and Doolittle 3
1.3.1 Hard Working Daughter and Lazy Father 3
1.3.2 Two Kinds of Happiness 3
1.3.3 Independent Woman and Dependent Man 4
2. Analyze the Limitation of Shaw’s feminism 4
2.1 Attractive Higgins with lots of weaknesses
2.1.1 Higgins, a Celibate
2.1.2 Women’s weakness reflected by Higgins’s compliments 4
2.1.3 Shaw made Higgins likable at all times
2.2 The Absence of Happy Reunion 4
2.2.1 Higgins’s Deep-rooted Male Chauvinism 4
2.2.2 Eliza’s Unthorough Independent 5
2.2.3 Feminism confined by society 5
3. The Cause of Shaw's Limited feminism
3.1 Shaw's Living experience…………………………………………
3.2 The influence of the society………………………………………
4. Conclusion 5
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