You were a fool: I think a woman fetching a man's slippers is a disgusting sight: did i ever fetch your slippers? I think a good deal more of you for throwing them in my face. ' You call me a brute because you couldn't buy a claim on me by fetching my slippers and finding my spectacles. Towards the end of the play, Higgins tells Eliza: Shaw, through Higgins, is actually something of a feminist if you look at his lines closely. Neither Eliza Doolittle, nor her father, are happy with their new position and expectations in and of society. The play is a great piece of criticism on trying to fit in too much and thereby changing your own persona, something that is still very current. All of the characters are lovable, although Higgins always treads on the line between lovable and offensive. That she is eventually the one with the better manners barely comes as a surprise. A professor teaches a flower girl how to speak properly, thinking that this is the way to enter into society. The plot of this play is amazing in its simplicity. The play is a sharp lampoon of the rigid British class system of the day and a commentary on women's independence. Professor of phonetics Henry Higgins makes a bet that he can train a bedraggled Cockney flower girl, Eliza Doolittle, to pass for a duchess at an ambassador's garden party by teaching her to assume a veneer of gentility, the most important element of which, he believes, is impeccable speech.

I still can't get over the fact that my grandmother knew her and saw her perform in her own livingroom! Yes, I am jealous of my grandmother! 'Pygmalion' is one of my favourite plays and many people know it better as the musical 'My Fair Lady' with the amazing Audrey Hepburn.

Eddie bracken in murder she wrote