Answer:
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) the versatile dramatist used contemporary social, political and religious problems as subjects for his plays. Pygmalion, perhaps the only one of his many plays in which he points out to his audience and his readers that he has used an ancient classical myth to explore a problem that is not merely contemporary but one that has lasted through time. This myth is the story of Pygmalion – Galatea which has been told and retold by several later writers in differing forms. In the most familiar version of this myth, Pygmalion was the king of Cyprus. He was also a great sculptor who used to make beautiful statues of bronze, marble and ivory. He was devoted to his art and always sought for perfection at any. Dressed in Opera Cloak with diamonds, fan, flowers and all other accessories she passes like a Duchess, creating sensation in the whole atmosphere. Nepummuck, the marvelous interpreter (and Higgins’ previous student also to whom he taught phonetics) identifies her as a Hungarian princess. Thus her success at the ambassador’s reception is overwhelming. But the experiment is followed by its aftermath. As euphoria of triumph is over, Eliza is faced with the stark reality. She has become disclassed, left unfit for her old life and unable for her old life and unable to forge a new one Eliza is tragic in her fear and despair. Higgins is also quite unsentimental and unromantic in his approach to Eliza. Looking to this attitude of Professor Higgins Eliza shouted on him asking; “What am I fit for? Where am I to go? What am I to do? What to become of me? Higgins’ this attitude of indifference drives her to Freddy, who worships her. Eliza leaves Higgins house and so takes decisive step into the future. Shaw explains the sexual attitude of Higgins towards Eliza in terms of the Oedipus Complex. In Appendix he says “If an imaginative boy has a suffering rich mother who has intelligence, personal grace, dignity of character without harshness and a cultivated sense of the best art of her time to enable her to make her house beautiful.
Explanation:
"Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde" was written by Robert Louis Stevenson and tells the story of a scientist named Dr Jekyll, a respected man in society, kind and highly valued in his field of work, where everyone recognizes him as a citizen and an exemplary professional. However, he begins to have curiosities about his second nature, one that nobody knows and that is the opposite of him. At that moment, he begins to do a series of controversial and dark experiments to reveal this second nature. These experiments use unconventional methods that address the dark side of science. The narrative presents us with the duality of human nature and the complexities between the limits of science and ethics.
And yet, little brother, I was born among men, and it was among men that my mother died - in the cages of the king's palace at Oodeypore.
Answer: Option D.
<u>Explanation:</u>
"Mowgli brothers" has a theme that the needs of the society can sometimes not fulfill the needs of the man himself. Some times the man himself needs something else but the needs and the laws of the society are totally something else which are against the needs and the laws of the individual.
The theme in this story is shown in this that even though his mother died among those men, he himself was born among those men again even if he did not want to. So sometimes we have to kill our own wishes and needs because of the needs and the laws of the society.
