ABSTRACT
Kelly suggests that: the perennial protests by many students about the “relevance” of curricular materials speaks to this disquiet” and dissatisfaction with the student experience of English. These feelings may well be a part of the resistance out of which a more “exciting and informed study of English might come. George Bernard Shaw’s play Pygmalion, first performed in 1913 uses the Greek myth as its source. In mythology, Pygmalion carves a woman out of ivory and is so fixated with her beauty that he falls in love with the statue. To use ideas from Lacanian and the Slavic theorist Zizek, we are aware that teachers present the object that students are told to desire in return for academic credit.
