Writing prompts help build the ability to respond to questions, and they help writers get their ideas down. Over the course of time, they build writing fluency and proficiency as well.
Please give serious consideration to the prompt, doing so will highlight connections in the texts we read. Please use all of the time provided -- keep writing even when you think you're out of ideas. Remember, writing is a thinking process; the more you write, the more you think! Although I do not assess daily writing responses for conventions, use them to practice your skills – try to write in complete sentences (avoid fragments, run-ons, and comma-splices) and develop other good habits (e.g., capitalization, punctuation)
Writing Prompt –
Pygmalion Changes the World…How?
Pygmalion’s author, Bernard Shaw, believed that “art…could have as its mission nothing less than changing the world.” Therefore, readers and viewers of his work can assume each play intends to change the world in one or more ways. How does Pygmalion change the world?
Ask yourself, as a comedy, what kinds of ideas, prejudices, concepts, stereotypes, or themes it holds up for ridicule. Does mocking or ridiculing something produce change? If so, how? If not, why not?
If not through mockery, in what other ways does Pygmalion promote change and about what? Do you think it succeeds? How or why not?
Has it, in any way, produced a change in your thinking? How? About what? If not, why not?
Does changing one individual’s ideas about a stereotype, a prejudice, or any concept essentially change the world? If so, how? If not, why not?