George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion

For my Pygmalion performance, I decided to do a scene from Act II where Eliza encounters Higgins and Pickering for the first time together in the mansion. One of the main reasons why I chose this part of the play was because it was a starting point for important things that later takes place in the story. This was the initial point where Eliza meets Higgins and has a decent conversation about what she wants to do with her future, and in the end it results in Higgins making that decision for her. The scene indicates that even though Higgins is a “professional”, he is definitely not the right person to change Eliza. It is also revealed throughout this scene that while Higgins is an expert phonetician, he has some flaws such as his constant swearing, lack of manners, quarrelsome nature, and his other bad habits. Eliza proposes that she doesn’t want to be just a common flower girl and instead wants to be the owner of a flower shop, therefore her proposal to Higgins to actually teach her how to speak like one. (Act II) And that’s why this scene was very important to the storyline an...