... a fair chance of a decent education still remains. Overall, everyone has a better, much improved, education than they would have had a hundred years ago, but nowadays good jobs still demand a better education than a modern poor family's money can provide. The system is relatively similar; the more money available, the better the education. As for the issue of war, two wars have been fought since the play was written. Though now treaties and agreements and organisations have been devised to prevent war. A modern audience might not fully understand or sympathise with the characters of Pygmalion because the issues George Bernard Shaw was trying to illustrate are not relevant in today's society. For example, the class system has now disintegrated and people are no longer judged by their wealth. The two characters I will be focussing on are Eliza and Higgins. In the play, Eliza is poor, ...

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