Galatea cobra veu: Eliza Doolitle i Dolores Mendoza, una relectura en clau de gènere del mite de Pigmalió

Identifier:  TDX:4403

Handle: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11797/TDX4403

Authors:  Gort Paniello, Marta

Abstract:
The myth of Pygmalion and Galatea was written, for the first time, in the Metamorphosis by Ovid. In this study I analyse and compare two contemporary representations of Galatea: Eliza Doolittle, the protagonist from the play Pygmalion, by George Bernard Shaw (1916) and Dolores Mendoza, from the novel La salvatge. Elegia de Dolores Mendoza, by Isabel-Clara Simó (1993). The aim of my investigation is to address the myth of Pygmalion from the Studies of women, gender and feminisms and, more specifically, to study the following hypotheses: 1. The misogynist element found in the Greek myth will be reproduced in the contemporary Pygmalions, professor Higgins and Joaquim Simon. 2. As La salvatge was written by a female and feminist writer at the end of the twentieth century, Galatea-Dolores will be more progressive, from the gender perspective, than Galatea-Eliza. 3. The analysis of the secondary female characters will be extremely important to understand the way women are portrayed in the literary works of Shaw and Simó.