Character · Pygmalion · Bernard Shaw

ELIZA

2 monologues indexed — plays defiance, liberation.

DramaticDefianceLiberation20s–30s20sIntermediate

Monologues

ELIZA

I sold flowers. I didn't sell myself. Now you've made a lady of me I'm not fit to sell anything else. I wish you'd left me where you found me.

1:00DramaticIntermediate

ELIZA

Aha! That's done you, Henry Higgins, it has. Now I don't care that for your bullying and your big talk.

0:48DramaticIntermediate

To make Higgins see her as a person he has stranded, not an experiment he has finished.Eliza has just passed as a duchess at a ball and won Higgins his bet. He has celebrated himself and ignored her. She has fled to his mother's house.
To make Higgins feel, for once, the sting of being dispensable — and to claim, out loud, her own worth.The bet is won, the experiment over, and Higgins expects Eliza to fetch his slippers. Instead she leaves — and finds her voice.