Have you ever read a story called, Pygmalion? Well, you'll be about to see what it is about, starting now. The author of the book, George Bernard Shaw, also wrote five other books including Pygmalion. Pygmalion is a story about a flower girl named Eliza Doolittle with a bit of nonsense to her communication. However, a man named Henry Higgins will help her voice change into a duchess within about six months. In Pygmalion, while it is clear that Eliza’s character has changed externally, she has not changed internally because she still remains the same as a commoner as she was by the end of the play.
How Eliza changed externally, but not internally is that her appearance is not the same as in Act I. As you can see throughout Act I to Act 5, Eliza's first appearance was just ragged clothing, but throughout the story, Eliza grew more beautiful than ever. For example, “Eliza, who is exquisitely dressed, produces an impression of such remarkable distinction and beauty as she entered that they all raised, quite flattered.”(54). This shows that Eliza's appearance changed, although her personality never changed
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During Act 5, we can see that Eliza greets Higgins and then confronts him that she wanted to be treated just like a duchess instead of a flower girl. Eliza stated, “It’s not because you paid for my dress, I know you are generous to everybody with money, but it was from you that I learnt really nice manners: and that is what makes one a lady, isn’t it?”(79). This shows that Eliza's fear of Higgins grew weaker before she was a flower girl by then. However, Eliza does change internally during Act 3 when Eliza was educated and well divided by her speaking, but does not think before speaking. For example, “My aunt died of influenza: so they said”(55). Not only did Eliza stand up, it also gave her a chance to prove to Higgins that she was more than a flower