Style Of Change In Pygmalion

ELIZA: You’re right I didn’t but you treated me as if I didn’t. You can change the appearance of Eliza but you can’t change Eliza Doolittle.

Eliza now has two suitors; one who is staid and reserved and one who is amiable and gay. While Mr. Boyer sees Eliza as a woman with “an accomplished mind and polished manner”, it is Sanford’s view of Eliza’s exuberant nature that ensures her downfall (10). In Major Sanford’s letter to Charles Deighton, he sees Eliza as a conquest. He writes that she is “an elegant partner; one exactly calculated to please my fancy; gay, volatile, apparently thoughtless of everything but present enjoyment” (18). Sanford does

There are two different versions. The first version is Shaw’s version. Assuming to position Eliza in a real-life situation, Shaw seems to treat Eliza as an ambiguous character, thus the ending is indefinite. Through Eliza’s effort, she has gradually bridged the gap between herself and the life of the upper class people. Nonetheless, she has to face the dilemma: she may either continue to seek independence by making money on her own or be forced to get married to a rich nobleman. The vague ending has carried an implicit message: the female independence and unfair social relationships are yet to be

Explore how Change is presented in George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion and Willy Russell’s Educating Rita.

However, Higgins’s belief that he can improve her accent is not rooted in his opinion of Eliza’s capabilities, but rather his own. Higgins would not back down from a challenge and admit that he has his faults and limitations. In fact, his comments about others are often filled with derision and he has an air of haughtiness and complacency about him. The desire of Eliza’s to climb the social ladder is understandable and thus easily relatable. By this point in the Victorian era, people could rise up from their original station in society, which was determined by birth, by working hard and following societal convention. A core argument behind many philosophies and religions is to improve the followers, to enrich their lives—this is simply what most people want for themselves. Revealing this desire of Eliza’s helps the audience to identify with her, which foreshadows the fact that she is the protagonist. Perhaps having Professor Colonel Pickering as a foil to Professor Henry Higgins helped to remind her that not everyone would be so cruel, and perhaps having Freddy in the background helped to reinforce the fact that some people are already captivated by her even before she began to become changed.

No matter if a person is a reader of Pygmalion, written by George Bernard Shaw, or a viewer of The Makeover, it is understood both Eliza Doolittle and Elliot Doolittle are in need of a transformation. Throughout both the book and film, both characters were going through drastic changes in life.

In the play, Eliza Doolittle feels as though she was being used for an experiment and develops a hatred towards Henry Higgins. They get into an argument and it doesn't end on good terms. It isn't too long after this argument that Freddy sees Eliza and proposes to her. She accepts his offer and then informs Higgins on the news of the engagement. The play ends with her being engaged to Freddy.

Jane Austen develops a strong illustration of how challenging emotional circumstances can initiate a change in character, using Elizabeth Bennet as an effective demonstration in Pride and Prejudice. Cases such as Mr. Darcy's proposal, Charlotte's marriage, and the discovery of Mr. Wickham's past are compelling support for Austen's idea that alterations to one's behaviour and actions can occur as a result of being placed in a strenuous emotional position. Each influences Elizabeth in a different way, some causing rapid change, while others cause a slower, more gradual one. Self-reflection and the reconsideration of a character's worldview allow Austen to highlight the importance of change in trying situations.

Eliza Doolittle and Gracie Hart are conflicted with the desire to be a lady, yet for different reasons. Eliza simply wants to speak properly so that she may “be a lady in a flow’r shop.” Gracie, on the other hand, desired to to be a lady only to fulfill her duties as an FBI agent. Additionally, Henry Higgins and Victor Melling both battle with their trainees to reach and maintain their objectives. An individual can see both sides of this conflict. The girls’ side includes having to put up with the disciplinarians’ instructions, and the side of the instructors consist of having to tolerate the lack of education in that particular

Pickering is the first to help her by kindly offering to “pay for the lessons [with Higgins].” After this proposition, not only is Higgins more inclined to teach her how to speak like a lady, but he is also inclined to “make a duchess” of her. As he continues to degrade and insult her, even Mrs. Pearce defends her by scolding Higgins, “You must be reasonable, Mr Higgins: really you must. You cant walk over everybody like this.” After being treated so insensitively by Higgins who's absorbed with his eccentric ideas, Eliza finds herself apprehensively accepting aid from him and his

Beginning with My Fair Lady, the plot is set in London, in the late Edwardian era. Eliza Doolittle is a young girl lacking a formal education, shadowed from the high class system. She is then taken in by Henry Higgins, a professor who is highly educated but tends to strive away from the typical class act, making him have an odd relationship with his mother. Henry decides to make Eliza into a educated, beautiful, high-class lady, and pass her off at a very elegant event. She then goes through numerous amounts of speech and manner lessons. I also feel that she is battling an internal conflict with herself, because once she becomes this very elegant lady, she starts to feel so changed, that she wants to go back to her old self again.

On the surface, the play Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw is a modernized, real-life spin off of the Greek myth of Pygmalion, in which a sculptor falls in love with a statue that he has carved. One can easily argue that Professor Higgins plays the role of the sculptor, as he molds Eliza, the statue, into something more desirable throughout the entirety of the play. However, when digging deeper into the text through the use of close reading, I found that the play itself outlined and symbolized the differences in social class hierarchies. In fact, I think that the text was a medium that the author used to display a social experiment, and highlight the advantages and disadvantages that the changing of social hierarchies is able to provide.

In Pygmalion, by George Bernard Shaw, regionalism, or local color, progresses throughout the story. Shaw utilizes setting, dialogue, and dress to illustrate this progression and emphasize class distinction and character development within the play.

Pip’s and Eliza’s ascents in society are mostly controlled by external forces, though Eliza makes a conscious decision to attempt to become more ladylike. However, control over her life is quickly wrested from her control anyway. Pip becomes a gentleman after he is told “that he will come into a handsome property… [and] be immediately removed from his present sphere of life and from this place, and be brought up as a gentleman,—in a word, as a young fellow of great expectations” (Dickens, Ch. 18). Pip is not given a choice in the matter of whether to become a gentleman or stay part of the working class. Pip would likely have, given the option, chosen to become a gentleman because he has aspired to become a gentleman since, and because of, meeting Estella (Dickens, Ch. 17). Pip’s obsession with Estella removes even more of his control over his situation, because everything he does, he does for her, even though she does not intend for him to do so. Unlike Pip, Eliza consciously decides to seek out Mr. Higgins in the hopes that he can help her become a “lady in a

            Even though the Professor is a highly intelligent man, he is completely ignorant of other peoples’ feelings.  Colonel Pickering “came all the way from India to meet [the Professor].”  Pickering will not travel halfway around the world if the Professor is not smart.  Despite his extreme intelligence, Higgins is unaware of the fact that Eliza is a person with real emotions and feelings.  Mrs. Pearce informs Higgins that he can not take a girl off the street as if she is a pebble off the ground.  Higgins only reply to this is “Why not?” thereby displaying that he is insensitive and ignorant of Eliza’s feelings.  He is so myopic that he does not see the need to have any concern whatsoever for Eliza.  When Eliza first comes to Higgins with her request