He shows her not only as a person who completely violates the English language, but, more important, he shows her as a low, vulgar creature - totally without manners. In the first act, Shaw takes great pains to hide all of Eliza’s basic qualities.
Higgins’ house, that we know that Eliza possesses a great deal of native intelligence, that she has a perfect ear for all sorts of sounds, an excellent ability at reproducing sounds, a superb memory, and a passionate desire to improve herself. It is not until the third act, when Eliza makes her appearance at Mrs. In the opening act, the audience cannot know that beneath the mud and behind the horrible speech sounds stands the potential of a great “work of art.” This carries through the Pygmalion-Galatea theme in which a crude piece of marble is transformed into a beautiful statue.
The character of Eliza is best seen by the progression which she makes from “a thing of stone,” “a nothingness,” a “guttersnipe,” and a “squashed cabbage leaf’ to the final act where she is an exquisite lady - totally self-possessed, a person who has in many ways surpassed her creator.
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Shaw’s story of the flower girl from the slums who was taught to speak so properly that she was able to pass as a duchess at an ambassador’s garden party is perhaps one of the best known works by Shaw, partly because of the popularity of the play which, in turn, inspired a more sentimentalized version in a popular movie and, later, became one of the world’s most popular musical comedies, My Fair Lady, using Shaw’s broad outlines, but turning the play from a study in manners to a sentimental love story between pupil and master.
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