Pygmalion Themes

Pygmalion is a lesson filled book. There are a couple different themes in this book that note back to the fact. Times were vastly different in the time period that Pygmalion takes place. One of the themes displays that people back in those times did not think that what everyone else thought of you mattered compared to the way you felt about yourself. This is something that not many people possess today. Another theme is how people helped each other back then not even for their own benefit. 

Eliza is not the most proper woman in the beginning of the book but she does not care. She is happy with her life inside and out. Despite how people react to the way she presents herself and speaks. To her it does not matter how undereducated she seems. Higgins and the Colonel are repulsed by her persona. Even in the end after she had been receiving lessons from Higgins on how to be a lady she still resorts to her old ways. 

Higgins and the Colonel try to help Eliza because they see through her rubbish ways and see the smart young lady that she is and  know she has potential to better herself if she wishes. They take time out of their lives to teach her and spend time with her to learn the ways of a lady. Even when Eliza is resistant they do not give up on her. Not many people in this time want to use their own time to devote just to anyone else for the bettering of their self. People need to stop and think sometimes about how times have changed. 

Both of these themes are lessons that people need to learn. You should not care what others think of you but what you know about yourself. It only matters who you are and not all about how you are perceived by the world because perception is not always correct. The other being that you should always try to help someone else in need even if it does not benefit yourself directly you are helping someone in need and that matters more.