George Bernard Shaw was born in 1856 in Dublin. He was originated from Yorkshire, so he was a typical Irishman. He was the son of a English businessman and his mother was a music teacher. | | Shaw`s family was very poor. Therefore he just got a low education. Because of the financial misery, Shaws Mother moved to London for earning some money. Shaw made his living from playing piano. | | These are reasons among others why shaw was a follower of the socialism. He was impressed by Isben and Marx. He made fun of the victorian and showed the faults of the society. He hasn’t any illusions, so he could analyse all human values with his rationality. | | He wondered about love, democracy, medicine, nationalism or ethics. He mistrust all feelings and in his opinion all these emotions had just a marginal place in a human life. | | We can identify Mr. Higgins as George Shaw, because he also underrate feelings and act with rationality. You can attest Mr.Higgins a certain heartnessless and a lack of manners. In the real life shaw was similar. | | In 1884, Shaw joined the Fabian-Society, which was an alliance of social reformer, who fought for a social change. In this time, shaw began to write. But he hasn’t any prosperity. Ten years later, he shocked and amused the English public with his funny and witty comments as a critic of the theatres and arts | | He wrote his first play “Widowers Houses”. This is one of three plays Shaw published as Plays Unpleasant in 1898; they were termed "unpleasant" because they were intended, not to entertain their audiences—as traditional Victorian theatre was expected to—but to raise awareness of social problems and to censure exploitation of the laboring class by the unproductive rich | Er schrieb sein erstes Theaterstück. Widowers Houses. Welches eines von drei Stücken ist, welches von Shaw als “unerfreuliches Stück” publiziert wurde. Sie wurden “unerfreulich” benannt weil s | And finally with the publication of The