... regretful isolation she felt at her first ball in Bath. However, as luck would have it, she was not lonely for long, when her brother James brought forth his fiancée, Isabella Thorpe, of which Catherine had been determined to be the best of friends with. Too shortly did their friendship end when ... without: "Catherine was completely awakened. Henry's address, as short as it may have been, had more throughly opened her eyes to the extravagance of her late fancies than all their several disappointments had done. Most grievously was she humbled. Most bitterly did she cry..."" (Austen, 129...

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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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