Eliza Doolittle

             In what way or ways does Eliza change during the course of the play?
             Eliza Doolittle is introduced as a poor flowergirl.In the beginnig of the play she is described as a neglected and unromatic figure of the play."Her hair needs washing rather badly" emphasizes her appeareance.
             Beside that"She is as clean as she can afford to be".
             Her English is destored be a verry strong accent that everybody immidiatly classifies her in a low social class.
             She is cought in her class because of her language.
             The character Eliza Dollitle is a poor flowergirl but she often insures to be a respectable, honest girl"I am a goog girl I am "which excludes the possiblity of beeing a prostitude for the reader.
             Eliza has the strong will to raise her respect and society class.
             Other peoples opinions always mean verry much to her.
             IN the taxi in Act1 she pretents to go to the Buckingham Palace.
             Soon the realises that the first condition of gaining more respect and belong to a higher class society is to talk proper english.
             By chance she listened to a conversation of Mr Higgins and Colonel Pickering, two gentleman who analyse many diffenrent accents.
             Suddenly Eliza found a way reach her goals. Imporving her language by taking lessons from Mr Higgins would open the doors for a higher class.
             Obiously she was not able to pay an appropriate price but Mr Higgins agreed in form of a bet with Colonel Pickering.
             The content of this exotic bet was to transform this poor street girl into an elegant proper lady which could pass as a dutches within six month.
             Without further thinking of the consequences of this doubtful bet Eliza agreed and was happy to start her way to make her dreams come true.
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