书籍介绍
Shaw radically reworks Ovid's tale with a feminist twist: while Henry Higgins successfully teaches Eliza Doolittle to speak and act like a duchess, she adamantly refuses to be his creation. First produced in 1914, it remains one of Shaw's most popular plays.
The Definitive Text under the editorial supervision of Dan H. Laurence
With an Introduction by Nicholas Grene
AI导读
核心看点
- 萧伯纳重构神话，赋予卖花女独立灵魂
- 犀利讽刺上流社会虚伪与阶级偏见
- 探讨语言如何决定社会身份与命运
适合谁读
- 对英国文学及萧伯纳作品感兴趣的读者
- 关注女性独立意识与社会阶层议题者
- 喜欢机智对白与反传统结局的戏剧迷
读前提醒
- 原著结局非浪漫爱情，请放下电影滤镜
- 注意区分希金斯与皮克瑞上校的差异
- 关注萧伯纳在后记中对社会问题的批判
读者共识
- 原著比电影版更犀利，充满现实讽刺
- 希金斯傲慢冷漠，皮克瑞上校更受喜爱
- 伊丽莎的觉醒与离开是剧本最高立意
本导读基于书籍简介、目录、原文摘录、短评和书评生成，不等同于全文精读。
精彩摘录
- "Oh, Lord knows! I suppose the woman wants to live her own life; and the man wants to live his; and each tries to drag the other on to the wrong track. One wants to go north and the other southl and the result is that both have to go east, though they both hate the east wind. [ He sits down on the be"
- "Cheltenham，Harrow，Cambridge，and India"
- "教堂的钟声敲了十一点半。 钟声使他醒悟，觉得他自己的伪君子态度和对穷人的苛刻是不对的。"
- "so deliciously low —— so horribly dirty 下流得可爱，肮脏得可怕"
- "ahahahahowowoooo"
- "the bravado of genteel poverty"
- "Mrs Higgins 息夫人"
- "what the devilare we going to talk about until Eliza comes?"
用户评论
Shaw 的刻薄让他忍不住在后记里面又使劲抖了几次机灵
这是我看的第一本原版书吧~
看过的是penn state's electronics classics series版本
上流社会是多么容易被蒙骗哦。实际上一点儿也不romantic，倒是充斥着对所有人的讽刺，除了Mrs Higgins和Pickering。Higgins高高在上，看不起所有人，更看不上女人，然而实际上也不过是粗鲁冷漠自私的人。萧伯纳巧妙运用了皮格马利翁的故事，但又给了Eliza更加鲜活的灵魂。语言与社会身份命题，也是非常有意思的关照面。
原著结尾真是赤裸裸的现实啊
太厌女了 “the moment that I let a woman make friends with me, she becomes jealous, exacting, suspicious and a damned nuisance… women upset everything.”
皮格马利翁情节已然成为性病理学的话题。萧伯纳以前的皮格马利翁故事中的女神被爱得无从选择，但在萧伯纳这里，它不仅让读者感同身受女性被物化的愤慨，而且还深受感动——地位卑微但不卑不亢自知自爱的Eliza“I am a good girl, I am."的重复主张。电影版温情的结局消解了部分冲突，让Higgins变得不那么可憎，但萧伯纳的结局中无可调和的冲突更发人深省。
“其实Galatea根本就不爱Pygmalion ，因为他对她的态度更多的是像一名造物主，谈不上爱。”震撼，这跟电影完全两码事啊，电影是掺了多少糖水
“My idea of a lovable woman is somebody as like you as possible.” boyyyy, you have mommy issues
因为电影版以为会是厌女文学，但出乎意料得好笑和正常！pleasantly suprised!
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