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  • Pygmalion: the myth and the play

  • "Pygmalion", the Bernard Shaw's play tells the story of a profesor of phonetics Henry Higgins who try to change a poor young woman florist Eliza Doolittle, in a distinguished lady of the high society.
  • The title is tired of the myth of Pygmalion, the sculptor of Cyprus.
  • Indeed, we can observe many common points betwenn the myth and the play, that is explain the name of the piece.
  • Pygmalion and the profesor Higgins are two men who try and arrive to reach their ideal woman.
  • Higgins like a sculptor have "sculpted" Eliza with his lessons of behavior.
  • And they share the same arrogance, and the same opinion about women.
  • They hates women.
  • The only diference is that Higgins and Eliza do not fall in love, they are just friend in the end of the play.
  • Bernard Shaw has wanted create a parallel between his story and the myth to criticize inequality between differents social categories.

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