Pygmalion Michael Ondaatje "At what cost

"At what cost

He becomes so wrapped up with the work and its unusual author that

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For 15-year-old Michael Berg

with the identity of both victim and perpetrator a riddle—yet this

Pygmalion Michael Ondaatje "At what costPygmalion both delighted and scandalized its first audiences in 1914. A brilliantly witty reworking of the classical tale of the sculptor Pygmalion, who falls in love with his perfect female statue, it is also a barbed attack on the British class system and a statement of Shaw's feminist views. In Shaw's hands, the phoneticist Henry Higgins is the Pygmalion figure who believes he can transform Eliza Doolittle, a cockney flower girl, into a duchess at