Yet Shaw developed well and became well versed in music, art, and literature. This was due to the influence of his mother, as also his frequent trips to the National Gallery of Ireland. This made him determined to become a writer and ended up being in London with his mother and elder sister. In his early years, he suffered a lot from frustration and poverty. Though he failed as a novelist in the 1880s, he found his own footings during this period. He became a vegetarian, a Socialist, a very good orator, a polemist and a playwright of unknown quality. He was also a

Now let us get back to Pygmalion and Mrs. Doolittle and this is a play built on the conventions and eccentricities of English. Yet the funny part is that the play was first staged in German than in English. The play begins with a rainy evening in London in the early part of the twentieth century. An opera has just ended and this has let a number of viewers on the street. Since it is raining some of them are assembled at St. Paul's Church for protection from the rain. There we have Eliza Doolittle, a girl of cockney origin trying to sell flowers to the people passing. She gets a warning that some gentleman is trying to note down all the words that she is saying. She wonders whether the individual is a policeman, but the person mentions that he is just interested in the sound of what she is saying. He confirms the truth of what he is saying by pointing our some people in the crowd and pointing out the origins of some people by just listening to their speech. He is Henry Higgins, and a celebrated linguist. Thus the first problem that Eliza Doolittle is having of seeing some person listening to her. The problem is rather simple and also solved very simply. The problem could have ended there but Eliza went on to meet Mr. Higgins at his house the next day and thus increasing the problems of Eliza. (Stangl, Pygmalion)

Why do all these problems occur? The main question is that Higgins does not view her as an equal. This is to be expected from the backgrounds of Higgins and Eliza. This is also to be expected to be the angle to be taken by Shaw. After all, he was a Socialist dyed to the core. His behavior is to be to try to make all individuals equal in society, though it is quite impractical. He also cannot give up the concept that people are different according to their origins. He also has the view that all people with money treat the people without money as less capable, and at the same time to keep them at the same level as they were earlier. After all it is the job of a socialist to bring everybody to the same level and Higgins was not a Socialist.

In literature the story of Eliza Doolittle is considered to be a romance though this is not apparent. This feeling comes as when there is any romance, at the end the heroine gets married to the hero. In this case, Higgins is a domineering individual and is interested only in his teaching, and domination of the people he meets. On the other hand, it is up to Eliza to decide whether she wants to marry him, and then she has to act in a position that she will be accepted by Higgins as his wife. On the other hand Higgins is the sort of a person who is determined that he will not marry, and if she really wanted to get married to him then she would have to pursue him in a devoted manner. It is a decision that she has to make, and at the same time she has to decide whether she really has the freedom to choose. It also depends a lot on her upbringing and income. The problem of income becomes very important at the end of youth and there is no security of livelihood. In that case, she has to marry anybody who will accept her. At that young age, it is clear the Eliza was not under such pressure.

He feels that he is the same as a middle class man and eat the same materials, but only drinks a lot more than him. He also ends up paying the same charges as the middleclass men, and according to him the difference of being in middle class is that they do not want to give him anything. He does not pretend to be in the situation "deserving" a

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