It’s over…

Finally, I’ve made up my mind. I’m working on Pygmalion for my research paper, as I’m so familiar with the play. Eliza Doolittle in Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion is a woman who has an aim; to change her social status and she choose to do it through education. She felt by having education, she is able to rise one step ahead of her present strata in life however, her dream of being educated at the end results in her lost of identity. She also faced the difficulties as other women all over the world when they want to have education. As we know fiction is a reflection of reality and in reality, the earliest push for Victorian women to become educated was because they were mothers of men and eventually teachers of men (Solomon xviii). It was not until the twentieth century that women began to desire knowledge for themselves as individuals. That is why this play was written later in the 1900’s. If we compare this play with Jane Austin’s novels, we can see what education meant during that time; for the sake of finding a good husband from a wealthy family and hardly for themselves. This is why I’m fond of writing about this play for my research paper. I wanted to elaborate further on the idea of education and women because as a woman, I do feel that we should have the equal rights in gaining education too!!! Education is not just about getting a good job, if I was a housewife; I want to be an educated one also; not just know the latest gossip in the neighborhood but also the current issues that happens around me. Another interesting issue about this play is the irrelevant reason she wanted education. Eliza only want to speak more ‘genteel’ so she can work in a florist shop. So shallow there needs for education. That is why I want to show students through this play that they should have significant reason in gaining education or else they are just wasting their parents’ money.