Good afternoon/morning,

First of all, I want to present the main points of my paper. In Chapter One I made a general
presentation of two main writers that were truly literary landmarks. First of them is George
Bernard Shaw, the second is Tennessee Williams. In the second chapter I briefly analysed two
of the most representative of their plays. The first is Pygmalion and the second is A Streetcar
Named Desire. Chapter three underlines the similarities and differences between the two plays
and of the stories behind their writing, of the society and way of living expressed in them, and
of their play writers. Chapter four renders the way in which women were perceived in the
patriarchal society and how there were so many differences between men and women or
between women that had come from different social layers.

About George Bernard Shaw we can easily say that he was a revolutionary, a writer of people,
even if he still remained an elitist until the end. He fought for equality and once with the Irish
revival and the Industrial revolution hoped for a better life for the common people. He
supported informal education and underlined the day-by-day struggle of many families. He
was one of the most important theatre critics and play writers. The key points of his literary
life were: - slide-ul 5

If George Bernard Shaw wrote between the reign of Kind Edward and the period when World
War I broke out, Tennessee Williams started writing during the reconstruction period
following World War II. Living in a time full of major changes- The American Civil War, the
post-Holocaust era and at the beginning of the, maybe, most stirring civil right movement. He
had a rough life, in his early childhood, as Shaw did. (slide 7). Shaw won the Nobel Prize for
literature, but Williams was and is the most important American dramatists. Regarding his
ideas, interests and beliefs- he discovers Chekov as Shaw discovered Ibsen, and, as a
compensatory figure a professor substituting his father. He worked hard in order to sustain
himself, and, as his writing comrade, ha was longing for a brave new world.

Slide 9- Pygmalion and Galatea, the story that went round the world, and that discusses about
issues like: - de citit de pe slide 9

Slide 10-A Streetcar Named Desire focuses on: -de citit de pe slide 10

Slide-urile 11, 12, 13 sunt explicite si puteti citi de acolo. Thank you for your attention!