Pigmalion as an Entertaining and Interesting Play

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Pigmalion as an Entertaining and Interesting Play "Pigmalion" is a popular comedy even today and is very famous that it is hard to find someone who does not knoew the play. From reading this book in class, I think there are many reasons for its popularity. I think one of the most important factor in this book that makes this play so amusing and gripping is the contrasting characters which in someways we can feel very familiar towards, as many people share their characters. Also it is interesting that the main characters, Eliza and Higgins have very different views to the world as well as for other things, probably because of the social classes they were brought up in. Henry treats Eliza and everyone else as if he is better than him, and cannot think about other people as these quotations show: "Pickering: shall we ask this baggage to sit down, or shall we throw her out of the window?" (p.23) "I walk over everybody ! My dear Mrs Pearce, my dear Pickering, I never had the slightest intention of walking over anyone. All I propose is that we should be kind to this poor girl." (p.27) "Cynical ? Who the dickens said it was cynical ? I mean it wouldn't be decent"(p56). However the respectable Englishman suddenly turns into a big naughty boy in front of his mother, throwing his hat on the table, sulking, swooping on his mother and dragging her to the ottoman.... The audience soon finds out that he has a very difficult character, but also comical and familiar, and I think without this character, this play would not be so entertainig. On the other hand, Eliza Dolittle, the main character, is self-confident and ambitious, which is twisted to make the play a comedy with the fact that she is from the lower class and that she does not know how to behave properly. Some may say that it is cruel to laugh at someone who is only funny because of the way she had grown up. However I do not think so because although she is concious of her

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