Pygmalion...

After watching the movie, I had more understanding on the play and on the characters involved especially Eliza and Higgins. Eliza represents a strong lady that wants to achieve her desire to sell flowers in a flower shop. Therefore, she asks Prof. Higgins to help her in her pronunciation, so that she can speak Standard English as wanted by the shop owner. Eliza tries hard in completing her education with the arrogant language professor but actually, it has been out of her track. This is because Higgins wants to make her as a fine lady that could marry a prince but Eliza’s wish is simple – to have better pronunciation and can be the flower girl in the shop, thus able to change her way of life. I admired her due to her strong will in going through all the mocking by Higgins.

The professor is a bully person and he takes her for granted. He uses the poor girl in his experiment on pronunciation and treats her badly. Higgins always looks down on her, not encouraging her emotionally. I pity her for the suffering that she goes through the lesson.

I admired Pickering due to his gentleman attitude. He always on Eliza’s side and encourages her through the lesson. He educates Eliza to be a fine lady through her inner self therefore Eliza respects him rather than Higgins.

In my opinion, Higgins successes in educates Eliza to have better pronunciation and speak Standard English and acts as a high society class. Compared to Pickering, he is successfully educates Eliza without realizing it until Eliza told him about it. And it does tell me Pickering is the right person to change Eliza at the first place….. :)