Pygmalion

Pygmalion did contradict the audience’s views, as the type of people who would read Pygmalion or see it in the theater would be the upper class, as the middle class and the lower class wouldn’t be able to afford it. The upper class were outraged at Shaw’s accusations and portrayals of the upper class. “Pygmalion… scandalized it’s… audiences in 1914.” This quotation is absolutely true; Pygmalion teaches us how the upper class ostracized the lower class, and the outrageous and demoralizing way in which the lower class were treated. Pygmalion did challenge the traditional stereotypical views of the 20th century and the class system. Mostly, Shaw explains to us through Higgins, where Higgins is being condescending, contradicting and demoralizing towards Eliza, including where he says: “I wonder where… my slippers are! ‘Eliza looks at him darkly; then rises suddenly and leaves the room… Eliza returns with a pair of… slippers… Higgins…catches sight of the slippers… and looks at them as if they has appeared there of their own accord.’” This shows that Eliza is annoyed at having to fetch Higgins’ slippers for him when he does not even notice that she has brought them to him.
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In Pygmalion, Shaw presents the classic theme of drama - the complexity inherent in human relationships. The play's major thematic concern is of course, romantic, as suggested by the title itself. In the Pygmalion narrative as told by Ovid in Metamorphoses, Pygmalion is described as having a repulsion for women and he thus decides to remain single.