Buchara state university m. Bakoeva, E. Muratova, M. Ochilova english literature

the statue and transformed it into a really alive woman. The fable 
was chosen to allow him to discuss the theme he had set himself.
The principal characters of the play are Eliza. Doolittle and 
Henry Higgins. Eliza, a girl of eighteen, comes from the lowest 
social level and speaks with a Strong Cockney (East End of 
London) accent, which is considered to be the most uncultured 
English. Eliza’s father is a dustman. Eliza does not went to stay 
with her father and stepmother. She makes her own living by 
selling flowers in the streets of London.
Henry Higgins is a professor of phonetics. He studies the 
physiological aspects of a person’s speech, the sounds o f the 
language. One day he sees Eliza in the street and bets with his 
friend Colonel Pickering that he will change this girl. He will not 
only teach her to speak her native language correctly, but will 
teach her manners too. Higgins works hard and before six months 
are over, she is well prepared to be introduced into society. Higgins 
wins his bet. When the game is over the girl doesn’t know where 
to go. She doesn’t want to return to her previous life, but at the 
same time she is not admitted to the high society as she is poor.
Higgins and Eliza remain friends, but the play is without 
ending. The dramatist thought it best not to go on with the story. 
Higgins loves Eliza only as his pupil. But he loves his profession 
as an artist. He has created a new Eliza. She is the work o f a 
Pygmalion.
“Pygmalion” shows the author’s concern for the perfection of 
the English Language. Shaw was passionately interested in the 
English language and the varieties of ways in which people spoke 
and misspoke it. Shaw wished to simplify and reform English. He