Pygmalion

This week, we have started reading on another play "Pygmalion".
"Pygmalion". What is "Pygmalion"? When I search this word on-line, I found out that "Pygmalion" is a legendary figure found in a Roman narrative poem, Ovid's Metamorphoses. Pygmalion is the name of a sculptor. He has carved a woman out of ivory and this statue is so realistic that he falls in love with it. So he prays to Venus and offers presents to the statue. Eventually, he is shown mercy by Venus and the statue is brought to life.
Thus, from the title of the play "Pygmalion" itself, it foreshadows the story of the play. It must be a story based on Ovid's tale of "Pygmalion". Indeed, it is!
The play "Pygmalion" by George Bernard Shaw is a story about Henry Higgins, a professor of phonetics, makes a bet with his friend, Colonel Pickering, that he can successfully pass off an ordinary flower girl, Eliza Doolittle, as a lady by teaching her how to speak upper class accent and training her behaviour. This is exactly like how Pygmalion is carving a woman, Higgins is also "carving" Eliza. Undoubtedly, as the story develops, Higgins gradually falls in love with Eliza, just like how Pygmalion falls in love with the statue he carved.
However, Higgins' story is not a myth like Pygmalion. He is not as lucky as Pygmalion because he has no "Venus" to realize his desire. At the end of the story, Eliza rejects Higgins' propose and declares that she will marry Freddy, a young and poor gentleman.