:Intro: Pygmalion Elsbeth Hilpert, Shaw's Pygmalion and Goethe 's Faust Cindarella ( a fairly tale ) Feminist Revolt Shaw, George Bernard (1856-1950) Pygmalion and Cindarella : A comparison The modern Pygmalion: the cloning professor Cicerone e Sandor Marai   Pygmaion In Greek mythology, a king of Cyprus who fell in love with an ivory statue he had carved himself. When Aphrodite brought it to life as a woman, named Galatea, he married her. Differences between the Pygmalion myth and Shaw´s play "Pygmalion" sculptor keeps away from women fashions a statue of an ideally shaped woman falls in love with the statue prays to the goddess of love to let his statue come alive; his prayer is answered, his wish is fulfilled marries her phonetics expert and teacher confirmed bachelor teaches a flower girl from the gutter to speak beautiful English and to acquire the manners and behaviour of a duchess grows accustomed to Eliza, but does not fall in love with her Eliza becomes a new person and achieves true independence from Higgins would like to keep Eliza in the house, but would also like to remain a bachelor