As an advocate for feminism,George Bernard Shaw,to awaken especially women to their subordinate and captivated posi⁃tion and opportunity for being New woman,wrote Candida in a time when women were stuck into“the virg...As an advocate for feminism,George Bernard Shaw,to awaken especially women to their subordinate and captivated posi⁃tion and opportunity for being New woman,wrote Candida in a time when women were stuck into“the virgin mother”role.Howev⁃er,from the perspective of feminist semiotic theory,we found that although creating a new woman different from the one defined by the common standard,Bernard Shaw still didn’t break the chain of portraying a“sign woman”-“the virgin mother”controlled by the patriarchal prejudice from male gaze.In addition,Candida becomes an object portrayed through two men characters and she be⁃comes the means to expose the developing of man character rather than the subject in the play.And Shaw’s limited feminism is al⁃so reflected in his other plays.Therefore,Bernard Shaw is an incomplete feminist.展开更多
Pygmalion is deemed as one of Bernard Shaw’s greatest plays which ruthlessly expose the hypocrisy of the capitalist society and its morality with humorous and sarcastic language.Based on textual and research analysis...Pygmalion is deemed as one of Bernard Shaw’s greatest plays which ruthlessly expose the hypocrisy of the capitalist society and its morality with humorous and sarcastic language.Based on textual and research analysis,this paper tends to analyze ironies from two aspects:verbal irony and situational irony.In the characterizations of Mr.Doolittle and Higgins,Shaw uses enormous ironies to satirize the hypocrisy of the morality of appearances,the money-oriented capitalist society and the hypocrisy of themselves.In terms of the situational ironies,the contrasts between characters’expectation and actual situation satirize the hypocrisy and blindly arrogant of Higgins and the Victorian prudery,while the outcomes of events departing from reader’s expectation satirize the difficulties of class-rising and the ignorance and fragile of the old aristocrat.展开更多
Mrs. Warren's Profession is an excellent drama written by George Bernard Shaw in 1893. However, because of its frank discussion of prostitution, the play was originally banned by the Lord Chamberlain, and it was f...Mrs. Warren's Profession is an excellent drama written by George Bernard Shaw in 1893. However, because of its frank discussion of prostitution, the play was originally banned by the Lord Chamberlain, and it was finally performed in January 1902,at London's New Lyric Club. Previous researchers have studied the play mostly from the perspectives of feminism, ethical literary criticism, and social problem drama in order to explore the new female images in Vivie and praise Vivie's female consciousness.While the study on Shaw's thoughts of Fabian socialism embodied in this play is quite less. Through the analysis of Mrs. Warren's Profession from the perspective of Fabian socialism, the exploitation of the capitalist system to the working people will be exposed, Shaw's thoughts of Fabian socialism will be discussed, so as to fully show that Shaw is concerned about the social reality and women. While the thoughts of Fabian socialism is not radical, so it can't change the bad situation of the workers. Only the revolutionary party can liberate the people at the bottom.展开更多
文摘As an advocate for feminism,George Bernard Shaw,to awaken especially women to their subordinate and captivated posi⁃tion and opportunity for being New woman,wrote Candida in a time when women were stuck into“the virgin mother”role.Howev⁃er,from the perspective of feminist semiotic theory,we found that although creating a new woman different from the one defined by the common standard,Bernard Shaw still didn’t break the chain of portraying a“sign woman”-“the virgin mother”controlled by the patriarchal prejudice from male gaze.In addition,Candida becomes an object portrayed through two men characters and she be⁃comes the means to expose the developing of man character rather than the subject in the play.And Shaw’s limited feminism is al⁃so reflected in his other plays.Therefore,Bernard Shaw is an incomplete feminist.
文摘Pygmalion is deemed as one of Bernard Shaw’s greatest plays which ruthlessly expose the hypocrisy of the capitalist society and its morality with humorous and sarcastic language.Based on textual and research analysis,this paper tends to analyze ironies from two aspects:verbal irony and situational irony.In the characterizations of Mr.Doolittle and Higgins,Shaw uses enormous ironies to satirize the hypocrisy of the morality of appearances,the money-oriented capitalist society and the hypocrisy of themselves.In terms of the situational ironies,the contrasts between characters’expectation and actual situation satirize the hypocrisy and blindly arrogant of Higgins and the Victorian prudery,while the outcomes of events departing from reader’s expectation satirize the difficulties of class-rising and the ignorance and fragile of the old aristocrat.
文摘Mrs. Warren's Profession is an excellent drama written by George Bernard Shaw in 1893. However, because of its frank discussion of prostitution, the play was originally banned by the Lord Chamberlain, and it was finally performed in January 1902,at London's New Lyric Club. Previous researchers have studied the play mostly from the perspectives of feminism, ethical literary criticism, and social problem drama in order to explore the new female images in Vivie and praise Vivie's female consciousness.While the study on Shaw's thoughts of Fabian socialism embodied in this play is quite less. Through the analysis of Mrs. Warren's Profession from the perspective of Fabian socialism, the exploitation of the capitalist system to the working people will be exposed, Shaw's thoughts of Fabian socialism will be discussed, so as to fully show that Shaw is concerned about the social reality and women. While the thoughts of Fabian socialism is not radical, so it can't change the bad situation of the workers. Only the revolutionary party can liberate the people at the bottom.
