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by George Bernard Shaw

Pygmalion (1913) is a play by George Bernard Shaw loosely inspired by the Greek myth of the same name. It tells the story of Henry Higgins, a professor of phonetics who makes a bet with his friend Colonel Pickering that he…

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I am struggling to figure out if Higgins actually falls in love with Eliza, or if he is forced into the relationship by "society" at the end. It this Shaw's way of making fun of Higgins?

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