Pygmalion is a five acts play. It is all about transforming a poor flower girl into duchess, and the transformation of her father from a common dustman to a gentleman. In this research I will be following both of the characters and their transition from the working class to middle class and how this transition will affects their life. The Writer The noble prize winner George Bernard Shaw is an Irish playwright, literary critic and socialist spokesman. He was born on July 26, 1856 in Dublin. The son of unsuccessful corn dealer .He struggled in his education and worked in real estate but struggled financially. He moved to London 1876, during his first years in London he lived with his mother who neglected him and toke her daughters and lifted her son and her husband and moved to London to work as musician. He didn 't go to university but he educated himself by reading and attending lectures. In his beginning he wrote many novels but was not successful. Then he turned his attention to politics in 1884 and joined a socialist group …show more content…
It offers a lot of discussion on various aspects of life. One of the themes the play focuses on is the theme of transformation. In Pygmalion the theme of transformation is related to characters of Eliza Doolittle and Alfred Doolittle. In term of Eliza Doolittle in the beginning of the play she is seen as a very poor girl flower girl who 's trying desperately to sell her flower but toward the end of the play she is totally changed in her appearance and behavior she became a lady of higher class. Before she encounters Henry Higgins she was uneducated flower girl in the street of London who sell flower to live. She wears very dirty cloths."Her hair needs washing rather badly." (Bernard Shaw) while her interaction it not intelligible to other people except if they are from London. ' 'Ow, eez ye-ooa san, is e? '