Tuesday, September 27, 2011

Flower girl

In the play, Pygmalion, by George Bernard, is a fantastic ! I loved the whole thing. from the instant I began to read, I was captured. I was immediately drawn to Eliza, like many I assume. While I was reading, at first I felt a great deal of gratitude towards Higgens, for giving her this new life. The poeticism in this play was marvelous, and so deeply romantic. The whole time I was reading, I felt that Higgens and Eliza would fall in love, I had given up this feeling when she left his house and went to his mother. I also at a moment felt that Higgens mistreated her, speaking of her as his creation, and she being a creature. But I think this is what provoked him to fall in love, the fact that he had spent so much time with her and transformed her into his "ideal" women, she was in some sort, his replica. I also in some manner, felt that Eliza was a little ungrateful towards Higgens. When she spoke to him and asked what she was to do when they were over with her, at some point he said that they could give her money to open up a flower shop, shouldn't that in some sense be enough? Yet, I do realize that he could have said this out of spite towards her, in sarcasm. I rethink and realize that he also spoke of her marrying someone, and that must have been a dagger in the heart, for she actually had some sort of love or attachments towards him. This is the first play that captured me, and I didn't want to stop reading it!

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  1. I also wanted them to end up together because there was noticeably a connection between those two the entire play. I do think Higgins was too harsh on her and stubborn making that idea never work in the end. He did build the ideal woman but he is not the ideal man for her.

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