Evaluate the theme of appearance and reality as treated in the play Pygmalion
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Answer:
Pygmalion is a play written by G. B. Shaw. First staged in 1913. The play has many themes including the theme of "appearance" and "reality," which is the main theme of the play also.
Explanation:
The play is about how appearance matters in the society. And how, if appearance changed, can affect the view of people towards others. Henry Higgins, a professor of phonetics, takes a flower girl named Eliza Doolittle, and change her into a duchess, by changing her appearance and her speech.
In Act 3, when Eliza is presented as a duchess by changing her speech and correcting her pronunciation, she is in her appearance looked like a duchess. But the reality was different from what appeared. She was a flower girl and now she can't go back to her old business of selling flowers because her appearance is changed.