With wondrous art, he creates a beautiful statue in ivory, Galatea, representing feminine ideal.
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When Pygmalion returns home, he kisses his statue and is delighted to find that she is warm and soft to touch.
his works including: 60 plays, 5 novels, 3 volumes of music criticism, 4 volumescism, and heaps of social commentary, political theory, and correspondence.
theater. a freethinker, defender of women’s
rights, and advocate of equality of income.
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Born in Dublin in 1856 to a middle-class Protestant family.
He married Charlotte Payne-Townshend in 1898, but it is known that he never touched her once.
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The Pygmalion Myth
It derives its name from the famous story in Ovid’s Metamorphoses(奥德维变形记).
Pygmalion is disgusted by the loose and shameful lives of the women in his era, women of Amathus, the first women to become prostitutes, and decides to live alone and unmarried.