A Great Cliffhanger

When reading Acts 2&3 I was reminded of Frankenstein’s monster. The way the creature felt abandoned by Victor is similar to how Eliza must have felt. She was a creation of someone else, no longer herself.  Even during Higgins and Eliza’s argument on page 76when refereeing to her he says, “The creature is nervous after all.”

Eliza felt used and less human that Higgins. She wanted to be happy again and be the person she wanted to be. She wanted to have a job, a happy life and fall in love. Instead she had been turned into something that had nothing. She was still the same poor girl she had been before but now she was educated, clean and “civilized”. She could not fit in with the upper class because she had no money but she could not go back to the lower class because she would have been seen as too snobby.

Higgins mother had warned him about this in Act 2 but he dismissed it with little care as to how this experiment would affect Eliza just as how Victor abandoned his creation. However unlike the monster Eliza had someone that had fallen for her, Freddy, waiting just outside her window. The monster had no one and hunted Victor to the ends of the earth to force him to make him a mate.

Not knowing what happens in Act 5 leaves the audience in a state of suspense after Act 4. Does Eliza find happiness, does Higgins realize the folly of his way. It’s a good “Empire Strikes Back” cliffhanger and I can’t wait to find out what happens next.