Action is portrayed in different ways in different genres. Discuss the ways in which action is portrayed in the novel Wide Sargasso Sea and the drama Pygmalion.

I will be writing about the drama Pygmalion by Bernard Shaw (1914), and the novel Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys (1966). During this assignment I will establish how action is portrayed in the genres, and will discuss comparisons between the two texts.
In reading the text of a drama and a novel, it is often easy to see many similarities in the way both have been written. But what one mustn’t forget is that although a text for a drama is in written form, the text is ultimately written to be performed, and various interpretations can ensue. It is a guide to how the drama should be played, and is not the entirety of its self. As such, there will be many different ways in which a drama portrays action compared to a novel, but there will also be similarities.
The idea for Shaw's drama, written in 1912, was based on the myth of sculptor Pygmalion. Pygmalion was a man who could not find a woman that satisfied his expectations, so he set about creating a sculpture that captured the ...