George Bernard Shaw

"The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and all time."

George Bernard Shaw

Shaw's words echo the message of this class. With this view, not only does the past possess the present, but it seems to go a little further and say that there is only one present that is forever and unceasing. With this view, there is no tangible difference between the past and the present--there is simply a present that is occupied by echoes of the past.



Shaw also wrote a play, Pygmalion, that was eventually turned into a movie, which Shaw was awarded an Oscar for. The play is, or course, about Pygmalion from Ovid's tale. Pygmalion was the character that crafted a statue so beautiful that he actually fell in love with it. He is so infatuated with the statue that he prays to Venus and she feels pity and turns the statue into a real woman.



This is an artistic interpretation of Pygmalion and his statue that has now become a real woman. This was painted by Jean-Léon Gérôme