Monday, 31 August 2009

When comparing and contrasting Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman and Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion, how do Shaw and Miller use dramatic ironyin their works to...

It is
surprising that these two plays have been chosen for comparison, since, in my opinion they have
little in common in plot, theme, or dramatic technique. The one thing that links them is that
both are critiques of the capitalist system. Shaw skewers the pretensions of both academics and
the middle and upper class in their treatment of working-class people. Miller looks at the
system from within and portrays the victimization of a man who thinks he's part of the system
but in reality is left out in the cold when his usefulness to it has expired.


Shaw's dramaticin is that Eliza turns the tables on Higgins and
gains a degree of power over him. This is much more pronounced in the musical...

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