Essay on The Analysis of the Transformation of Eliza

Another reason why Eliza has changed internally because she now her self worth.Like when she she is talking to Higgins about when he first took her in and how she felt different.In the text it states”Yes that showed me you thought i was something better than a scullery maid”(Pg:119 Act:5) This quote connects because as the reader can see she felt different because she felt as if she was something better than a scullery maid which was kinda her old ways.Finally Eliza has changed internally because the reader can see how she feels about her old self and the new her,In the text it states “But it was from you that i learned nice manners and that is what makes me a lady isnt it, you see it was so very diffcult for me with an example of proffesor higgins always before me i was bought up to be just like him unable to control myself(Pg:118

I want to start off with the transitions that Eliza went through. She had made the most transitions of all the characters. Her first transition was going from a little girl to a young woman, when she falls in love with Joaquin. She gets carried away with the illusion of love, and falls head over heels for him. Her second transition was when Tao Chi’en had made the decision to sneak her off the boat as a Chinese boy. She decided she actually liked dressing in men’s clothes because they weren’t as restricting as women’s. She then

Showing the poverty, which Eliza comes from is that Eliza is a poor flower peddler, someone who is selling flowers, who is only ending up having her flowers damaged by Freddy. Eliza cleverly is able to convince the mother Mrs. Eynsford Hill to but the damaged flowers. When this all begins this the first low point of Eliza’s and she dose not know it is her beginning of a new way of life. All before Eliza is chosen as the subject to be transformed in to a duchess like person:

That was the beginning climax of Eliza's transformation and the change of her identity. And although she has changed, she still has part of her old identity as a flower girl and her opinions and the way she thinks.

My artwork takes place in the deep blue sea. The main reason why I choose the ocean over another setting is because when I read the story, Eliza was talking about the drama classroom she said it was empty with no chairs, desks, and just the hardwood floor. The floor made me think of sand and the empty room made me think of the ocean.

Eliza can be characterized in many different ways, one way is independent. Eliza can be characterized as independent because when her mom left her and her dad, Eliza had to become the person who took care of her father, who was ill with stage 3 cancer. In school, is was just her, she did not have a best friend to lean on or a boyfriend to cry on, and after the fiasco with Peter in the photo room, Eliza became an independent woman with a guise of someone who does not care. Eliza is like a birch tree in a redwood forest. She is like everyone else, but yet everyone else sees her differently because of a rumor that happened a year ago. The guise that Eliza carried around was that she slept around and partied, which was far from the truth, she had been just a girl who’s mom had left her when her father got sick trying to cover up the pain it caused. When Eliza heard those words, she became even more secluded and more independent, fighting for her place in the world. Another way Eliza can be characterized as, is selfless. Eliza can be characterized as selfless because she always put others first, before herself. Eliza did not tell her dad what was happening at school because she always wanted to tell him the good news. She never confronted the rotten girls that started the rumor about her because she cared about Peter. In the book, Eliza said to Andy: “ This may come to a shock to you, but some

The 1964 award-winning film My Fair Lady is a musical adaptation of George Bernard Shaw’s stage production Pygmalion (first performed in the year of 1913).  Taking place in Edwardian London, My Fair Lady depicts Professor Henry Higgins (portrayed by Rex Harrison), a misogynistic phonetics professor, and Colonel Hugh Pickering (Wilfrid Hyde-White), the author of Spoken Sanskrit. Professor Higgins, after coming out of a theatre and hearing Eliza shouting in her harsh ‘Cockney’ accent, places a bet with Colonel Pickering that he can take the Cockney working-class girl and make her presentable in high society within six months. The working-class girl, Eliza Doolittle (portrayed by Audrey Hepburn), agrees to speech lessons from Professor Higgins to improve her job prospects. Eliza grudgingly agrees to Professor Higgins’ lessons after flying into an angry outburst when a man points out the professor copying down her speech. Despite Professor Higgins treats Eliza as a lesser being, his acquaintance Colonel Pickering treats her with constant respect and kindness, therefore treating her as an equal. It is Pickering’s treating Eliza not as a lesser being, but as an equal that allows Eliza to flourish and succeed.

lady. To do so Eliza has to learn how to speak proper and get rid of her nasty old ways. However, after she is transformed she knows not what is to become of her, but she realizes she does not

Both Eliza Doolittle from Pygmalion and Natalya Stepanovna from The Marriage Proposal are single and argumentative women with a very strong personality, who share very strong similarities but also some differences. Firstly, Eliza and Natalya are considered lower class citizens by the men around them. On one hand, Eliza is sold to Higgins by her father for five pounds, so he can go by a drink. On the other hand, Natalya’s father gets rid of her by allowing her to marry the neighbor, Lomov. Furthermore, both Eliza and Natalya are stubborn. Eliza refuses to let go off Higgins and insists that he teaches her how to speak proper English. Whilst, Natalya does not accept that Lomov says the piece of land is his, nor that his dog is better than hers.

Eliza’s reason for changing differed from Gracie’s in the fact that Eliza wanted to change to better herself and Gracie’s was so that she could do her job, not to better herself. Eliza Doolittle wanted to change in order to live a normal life. Eliza’s poor speech was holding her back from being who she wanted to be. Eliza’s wish was to work in a flower shop, but was not able to because she did not sound like a proper lady. She told Professor Higgins “I’m a good girl, I am!”

Eliza and Higgins are very alike in the fact that they believe education can provide work. For example “Simply phonetics the science of speech. That's my profession; also my hobby. Happy is the man who can make a living by his hobby! You can spot an Irishman or a Yorkshireman by his brogue” -Act 1. Here, Higgins proves a point that the art of education and speech can provide and be used as a tool. Also in his case used as a job and this is exactly what Eliza is looking for a way to use education in her favor. “Well, sir, in three months i could

Circumstance shapes people’s initial personalities, while chance decides their destinies. For instance, the two threads running through this book may be the best representatives of chance. When Mr. Shelby decided to sold Harry and Tom, both of them have chance to escape. However, Eliza chose to seek freedom with her son, while Tom did not catch this opportunity and was sold to the South. Eliza and Tom are affable and loyal at first, but the sharp contrast between Eliza and her family’s immigration to the North and

Class distinctions are made abundantly clear in Shaw’s “Pygmalion.” Eliza is representative of Shaw’s view of the English working class of the day: Crude, crass, and seemingly unintelligent yet worthy of pity. Equal criticism is leveled at the upper classes, who pass judgement upon the poor precipitated by their appearance and mannerisms. Higgins and Pickering’s attitude towards Eliza is one of derision, stemming from their difference in social status. For instance, Higgins’ open mockery of Eliza’s speech: “You see this creature with her kerbstone English: the English that will keep her in the gutter to the end of her days.” (Shaw.

Based off Galatea from Ovid’s Metamorphoses, George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion explores the belief that molding humans like clay improves them. Henry Higgins, a man so skilled in phonetics that he could “place [a man] within two miles in London” based off his accent, decides to elevate the poor but principled Elizabeth Doolittle to a gentlewoman and, as a bet, pass her off as a duchess. Higgins, in his characteristic unfeeling manner, pulls her from the gutter, educates her, and treats Elizabeth as a lady, ignoring the damage he may inflict on her future. Once someone rises out of poverty and ignorance, that person cannot return to their former status with the same mindset. Higgins believes, however, that Elizabeth would have enough skills to

In the book Pygmalion a young flower girl had to sell flowers on the street in order to provide for herself this book was put into visual in the musical “My Fair Lady”. Both Pygmalion and My Fair Lady are very similar but they also show many differences. The story Pygmalion is about a young woman by the name of Eliza Doolittle who is poor and uneducated so her speech is very bad but with the help of Henry Higgins and Colonel Pickering becomes a well-spoken and well-mannered woman. Pygmalion is the base of the musical and does not have as much flash as the musical does.