The play Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw takes place during the Industrial Revolution around 1916, and was about a poor girl Eliza, who had to sell flowers on the street corner just to live. She later transforms herself into a duchess, with phonetic and etiquette training from a phonetics professor Dr. Henry Higgins. Throughout Eliza’s life her parents were not there for her, and her father was an alcoholic who worked as a local dustman. Shaw’s Pygmalion is an early depiction of what today’s society…
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