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Essay / The women in the play Pygmalion - 1068
HIGGINS. "What! This impostor! This imbecile! This ignorant toad! Teach him my methods! My discoveries!"LIZA. "...You can't take away the knowledge you gave me. You said I have a keener ear than you. And I can be civil and kind to people, which is more than you can't... Oh, when I think of myself crawling under your feet and being trampled and reviled, when all the time I just had to lift my finger to be as good as you, I could just kick me." (PDF Act V Page 55) This part of the plot is the climax of Act V of Pygmalion and it is here illustrated that Liza has matured and realizes that she has been treated inhumanely. Her transformation from a girl without manners and lacking speech skills into a woman of refined speech and eloquence made Liza realize that regardless of her social position, she should be treated as an equal. It has been highlighted that she is not on the same level as Higgins because Higgins views the rich and poor versions of Liza as the lowest of the low, when in fact, through her "new self", she is a symbol of power and power. respect, especially as a woman in the Victorian era