Pygmalion, the mythical sculptor who falls in love with a statue he has created, has inspired many literary works, including G.B. Shaw’s play "Pygmalion" and its film adaptation, "My Fair Lady" in which Professor Higgins metamorphosizes Eliza Dolittle from flower girl to debutante.
But looking at it in its original context, I wonder if we all, like Pygmalion, at some point fall in love with creatures of our own making – the images in our heads of the person we want to eventually meet and fall in love with, and we forever chase that dream which sadly never quite really catches up with reality.
In so many ways, we are all Eliza Dolittle – simple flower girls in fancy clothes, pretending to be something we are not. Who really is the woman in the mirror?
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I agree with u..its so difficult to unmask the real us lost behind the so many masks tht we have adorned over the years...Wd I see the real me if I rip off those stubborn layers?
Nice one Gaelyn
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