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My Fair Lady - How is Eliza transformed from a 'squashed cabbage leaf' into a 'duchess'?
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Katherine Webber 10JW 23rd of January 2003 How is Eliza transformed from a 'squashed cabbage leaf' into a 'duchess'? Dublin born Bernard Shaw made the elevation from his Synge Street origins to a famous writer. The blockbusting musical, 'My Fair Lady' derived from Shaw's most prominent play 'Pygmalion' which was also popular in the early 20th century. In the 1900s, class was very important and the belief that you were born into a class and stayed there was common knowledge. Shaw wrote 'Pygmalion' because the distinction between the working and middle class had never been made. The play shows the differences between the classes and how a common 'guttersnipe' can become a respectable member of society. Well, if Shaw managed it why couldn't his main character, Eliza. "Liza Doolittle." The cockney girl is not only dirty, in need of a dentist, unfashionable and common but also has a coarse, even painful, voice and...
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