Pygmalion: the Trandformation of Eliza Doolittle

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In George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion, Shaw illustrates a transformation of Eliza Doolittle, a poor flower girl to a duchess with the help of Professor Henry Higgins and Colonial Pickering, who spotted Eliza selling flowers on the street. Professor Higgins then takes Eliza in, as a bet, to transform her to a duchess, having her speaking like a member of the British upper class to pull off being a duchess at the ball and to pursue her dream of opening up a flower shop. In this story Shaw uses class difference's throughout the play by using speaking of the social classes. In the beginning of the play, when Eliza first speaks to Professor Higgins and Colonial Pickering, Shaw emphasizes Eliza's poor English and way of speaking from the lower class by saying "Ow, eez yə-ooa san, is e? Wal, fewd dan y' də-ooty bawmz a mather should, eed now bettern to spawl a pore gel's flahrzn than ran awy athaht pyin. Will ye-oo py me f'them?” (Shaw, Page 5) This shows how the lower class spoke improper and poorly in the early English century and also how Shaw saw the lower class. Eliza stayed in apartments next to an oil shop, she used her under clothes as blankets for bed, and had a gas lamp that only worked when you put a penny in it to work that she never had money for. When Mr. Higgins takes her into his home to teach her upper class and proper English, she first needed to dress like an upper class woman. Mrs. Pearce then draws a bath for Eliza, Eliza then looks at the bath and says “I couldn't. It's not natural: It would kill me. I've never had a bath in my life: not what you would call a proper one.” (Shaw, Page 45) But also Mr. Doolittle, Eliza's father, thinks of himself in a different level of the poor class. He makes it seem that there is more classes within the groups of lower, middle, and upper class as if he does not see himself as lower class. “What is middle class
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