From there it shifts for a moment to Drury Lane and Lisson Grove, a London slum. It opens in Covent Gardena wholesale fruit-and-vegetable market at the corner of Tottenham Court Road. Eliza is greatly transformed over the course of the play, but it would take even greater transformations of society itself in the 20th century for women like Eliza to have real independence.The scene of the play is laid in London. She tells Higgins that she desires independence, but-although she is a strong character-we never see her actually obtain her independence in the play. In any case, her future can only be under the control of a man of some sort. At the end of the play, Eliza must choose between living with Higgins, living with her father, or marrying Freddy. But despite any redeeming aspects to women's roles in the world of the play, they ultimately cannot escape the constraints of their sexist world. These two characters thus demonstrate how women might still exert some agency within an oppressive Victorian society. Higgins takes Eliza in when she leaves Higgins and Pickering, and helps resolve things at the play's conclusion.

Pearce ensures the functioning of Higgins' household and reminds him of his own manners.

Nonetheless, they both play important roles. Higgins-are largely confined to their respective households. As it is set in the early 20th century, before women gained many basic rights and privileges, the play's other female characters- Mrs. The play further explores gender roles with its other female characters. She has to pretend to be someone other than who she really is. Pygmalion can thus be seen as showing how oppressive unrealistic ideals of femininity can be: to attain these ideals, Eliza has to be coached, disciplined, and taught. Similarly, the ideal noble lady of British society in the world of Shaw's play is a kind of fake, only a role that Eliza must learn to play. Pygmalion's perfect woman can only be attained with an artificial construct, a sculpture. These two narratives show how unrealistic and even unnatural the expectations that society often has for women are. As Pygmalion sculpts his ideal woman, so Higgins and Pickering mold Eliza into an ideal lady. By titling his play after this story, Shaw calls attention to questions of femininity and gender. The sculpture is so beautiful that he falls in love with it and it comes to life. In this story, Pygmalion scorns all the women around him and makes a sculpture of his ideal woman.

The title of Shaw's play is taken from the myth of Pygmalion.

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