In this case, Shaw wants us to think about the problems caused by our "common" language, and how language can separate people from different places and classes, even different parts of the same town. Pygmalion, like most of Shaw's plays, is super-didactic-it's meant to teach the audience. Meet the star of Pygmalion: the English language. This guy wrote the dang play, filling it to the brim with commentary about everything he found interesting-class issues, socialism, the state of the English language-oh, wait. Meet the star of Pygmalion, George Bernard Shaw.
He's a pedantic professor whose wordsmithing ways and penchant for lecturing are reminiscent of a certain Irish playwright-oh, wait.
Meet the star of Pygmalion, Henry Higgins. She's a Cockney flower girl whose charming ways and thick accent lure in a pedantic professor-oh, wait. Meet the star of Pygmalion, Eliza Doolittle.
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