A phonetics professor wagers he can transform a Cockney flower girl into a convincing duchess through speech lessons alone, exposing class barriers and personal transformation in Edwardian London
In rainy Covent Garden, flower girl Eliza Doolittle encounters phonetician Henry Higgins, who boasts he can pass her off asaristocracy with elocution training. Teaming with Colonel Pickering, Higgins bets on the experiment, dragging Eliza from guttersnipe slang to refined vowels amid gruelling lessons and cultural clashes.
Eliza triumphs at high-society events, fooling even ambassadors, but victory sours as Higgins treats her triumph dismissively, sparking her fury over her uncertain future. Questioning exploitation and independence, she confronts her ?creator?, revealing the limits of superficial change.
Shaw?s witty satire probes class snobbery, gender power, and self-invention, ending ambiguously as Eliza charts her own path beyond Higgins?s control.