George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion is based loosely on the tenth book of Ovid’s Metamorphoses and details the relationship between Pygmalion, the sculptor and Galatea, his creation. Shaw is well known in literary circles for his vociferous protest against the class distinction primarily in the United Kingdom. In the present study this researcher aims to put forward Shaw’s literary genius that went behind combining a mythological tale with that of a critique of the then existing class system. Some of the major themes that Shaw uses in Pygmalion center on the pretentious nature of high society and the vulgarity of the low society. Shaw uses characters to put forth novel ideas and it is probably why his plays have been called “dramas of ideas”. The same is true for Pygmalion; however, in this play he uses comedy as a tool to bring forth ideas related to how the class system works in a society that is extremely class conscious. The present study also delineates the differences between the play penned by Shaw and the movie adaptation entitled My Fair Lady of the aforementioned play that has been directed by George Cukor and produced by Warner Bros.