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Pygmalion was, in Greek legend, the King of Cyprus who fell in love with a beautiful ivory statue, Galatea. The more he looks upon her, the more deeply he falls in love with her, until he wishes that she were more than a statue. Taking pity on him the goddess Aphrodite blew life into the statue and made it come alive as a beautiful woman. The Pygmalion story written by George Bernard Shaw derives from …

…creator" in the end by leaving him. Overall, in both stories even thought both stories have different aspects to them, they both invoked the fact that there is the transformation resembled in the character. In both text the symbol of love is brought forth, but the main focus in the structure of society and the influences they place on the individual. Clearly both these stories are a way of expressing a man's role in society.