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This 4-page paper focuses on comparisons between George Bernard Shaw's Pygmolian and Jean Rhys' Wide Sargasso Sea. Topics discussed include women's dependence on men and the changes the heroines undergo due to cultural shifts.
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common, other than a heroine who is living beneath her means (Eliza Doolittle in Pygmalion and Bertha Mason/Antoinette in Wide Sargasso Sea). The two novels even take place in
different parts of the world (though during, more or less, the same time period). And both also offer patriarchal figures (Edward Rochester in Wide Sargasso Sea and Henry Higgins in
Pygmalion). Rochester is forced to marry Antoinette for her dowry, so he can be freed from debt back at home in England. Higgins, on the other hand, makes a bet
with Colonel Pickering, that he can transform Eliza into a lady. This, its assumed, will mean even more to his "phonetics" business - after all, if he can transform a
rough jewel like Eliza into someone whom society will accept, more customers will flock to his door. So its interesting to note that in both of these texts, women were
used, not so much for their bodies or sexual abilities, but rather, for commercialism and monetary gain. Yet there is more in common
with these two texts than what meets the eye. The main point of comparison is how the patriarchal men in these books react to the ladies - the contempt for
the womens circumstances and the move to change those circumstances. Rochesters dismissal of Antoinette, her family and her community as "children" is no different from Higgins contempt of Elizas circumstances
and her trade as a woman selling flowers. In a second obvious comparison, both are taken out of their familiar genre and placed
into unfamiliar situations. As an experiment, Higgins decides it might be fun to train Eliza as a lady. He manages to inflict all the proper ladylike skills in her -
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