The stories, Pygmalion and The Secret Agent, are about a woman's transformation. Pygmalion is a story about a young girl's transformation from an uneducated flower seller, into a very intelligent and highly capable young woman. Similarly, The Secret Agent is a story about a self-less woman, who is trapped in an unwanted marriage, just so her "half-wit brother and crippled mother" were taken care of (Conrad, 202). The most emotionally affected characters in these stories were the women in them, Winnie Verloc and Liza Doolittle.
In the stories Pygmalion and The Secret Agent, both women are the most emotionally affected by the events in the stories. Both of these women had to change in order to live with these men. In Pygmalion, Liza's goal in the beginning of the play is to "be a lady in a flower shop stead of sellin at the corner of Tottenham Court Road" (Shaw, 2228). But in order for her to become a respectable woman in a flower shop, she needs to become a new person. Professor......
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