Making Connections- My Fair Lady

Charles Dickens uses the character Pip to portray different elements of society. For example Pip starts as a little blacksmith boy, as he ages he is given the gift of freedom, money and most of all expectations. In the musical My Fair Lady the main character Eliza is a young flower girl who has never had any kind of education. Henry Higgins is a phoeneticist who wagers that Eliza Doolittle can pass for a duchess at the Embassy Ball.

Both Pip and Eliza began their lives in places they didn't want to belong. As soon as a new beginning was offered to these character, they jumped at the chance of changing their lives forever. Now that Pip is a gentleman he no longer would fit into role of a blacksmith, and ultimately cannot go home. Eliza never really had a family and lived on her own, after months of lessons she goes back to the flower market. Her friends don't even recognize her.

Both Pip and Eliza don't know where they belong in life. Their main educators in life do help them with future plans and education. Pip's Mathew Pocket is much like Eliza's Henry Higgins. These men help shaped these characters into the people they will become. In the process of changing and becoming either a gentleman or lady. Pip and Eliza both lost some of their past but ultimately gained a new future.