ng that
             he would drive himself mad obsessing over an inanimate
             object while at the same time knowing that nothing good
             could come from his love. He caressed her, gave her presents
             and decorated her body with fine clothing and jewels. He
             even laid her on his royal bed at night to sleep, calling
             her his wife. Finally, the festival of Venus came and
             Pygmalion stood before the altar and timidly said, "Give me,
             I pray to you for my wife" - he dared not say "my ivory
             wife", but said instead - "One like my ivory virgin"
             ("Metamorphoses by Ovid, p.10). The golden goddess of Venus
             knew that he meant he wanted his statue to be his wife, so
             she granted his wish. When Pygmalion returned home he placed
             his hands upon his statue, and to his surprise she felt warm
             and alive! Her lips became soft, and her skin molded to his
             touch. Nine months later a baby girl was born to them.
             In this Greek myth Pygmalion creates an ideal woman,
             made out of ivory. Although he never expected her to become
             real he still treated her like his wife and took great care
             of her. Eventually his wish was granted and she was brought
             to life. The perfect woman, in his eyes, was now his wife.
             Pygmalion created and formed this woman, showing that if you
             want something bad enough and love it as much as he loved
             his statue, you can make it happen.
             In "My Fair Lady," written during the era of the 1950's
             in England, there was a high aristocratic society which
             demarcates itself from the rest of English society,
             consisting of the elegantly dressed bourgeois class sharply
             contrasting the poor peasant class. Eliza Doolittle, a
             disheveled cockney flower vender who wa
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