Pygmalion: Transformation of Eliza
In ”Pygmalion”, Henry Higgins is Shaw’s Pygmalion and Eliza Doolittle is his Galatea. Henry Higgins teaches Eliza how to speak proper English and shapes her to fit into the middle class morality from a ”guttersnipe” just as Pygmalion creates a beautiful statue from an ugly piece of rock. While the transformation of Eliza is in…
