... a good girl, I am". Despite her awareness of her inferior social status, she pertly reminds Higgins that if he were a gentleman he would ask her to sit down during their first meeting. Vivian asserts herself likewise when interrupted by Edward while singing in the bath, she questions him "Don't you knock?" Both ... as a mentor when she needed help with social etiquette such as table manners and enabled her to be treated with respect, when purchasing a cocktail dress for dinner by introducing her to his friend, Bridget, who works in women's fashion. Eliza also needs direction on social e...

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... bath. Although she has witnessed life in poverty there is a sense of naivety and youth about her. She rejected the notion of selling herself when she was struggling in the gutters and again when she was a lady'. Eliza challenges society's notion of being a lady' as she always had morality, honour and decency but it took speech and manners for ... the Embassy Ball. These visual and aural dimensions give the audience a greater understanding of the play and of the messages it is trying to send society. The 1990s film Pretty Woman carries the Pygmalion themes into a different era with its ow...

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