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This 5 page paper talks about the issues of language and identity in the films “My Fair Lady” and “Wide Sargasso Sea.” Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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a common language. This brief paper discusses language and identity in the films "Wide Sargasso Sea" and "My Fair Lady." Discussion The idea that much of our identity comes
from the way we speak may have had its clearest expression in the film "My Fair Lady," which is the movie version of George Bernard Shaws play "Pygmalion." Pygmalion
was a young Greek sculptor who carved a statue of a beautiful woman and then fell in love with it, so much so that he couldnt form a relationship
with a real woman. Finally Venus, the goddess of love, took pity on him and brought the statute to life. The play retells this story although the
ending is different: in the lines themselves Shaw suggests that Professor Higgins, the man who teaches Eliza Doolittle to speak properly, and Eliza will not remain together, and in a
written epilogue he tells us that she did marry Freddy. But the film leaves us with the impression that Eliza has come back to Higgins to stay. In
both film and play, the main theme carries over from the myth: a man falls in love with a woman that he has "created"; in the modern works, he
has remade her into a woman who is now his equal, at least in terms of speech, and since she is "suitable" he finds her intriguing. The idea that language
helps determine our identity is the real theme of the film. Higgins is a linguistics professor and brags that simply by listening to a persons speech, he can place
their origins within six miles; if in London, within two streets (Dirks). Colonel Pickering is also a linguistics expert, and the two find Eliza Doolittle selling flowers on a
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