Sequel (prose afterword)
Shaw insists Eliza marries Freddy, not Higgins, explicitly rejecting the romantic ending audiences expected from the myth.
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From Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw
Shaw inverts the Ovidian myth: where Pygmalion's statue gratefully loved her creator, Eliza rebels against Higgins, asserting that a created being is not a possession.
Act V
Eliza's assertion of her own soul against her creator's claim of ownership embodies Shaw's feminist revision of the legend.
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