Pygmalion and Rita polite: language and identity This essay is based on the reading of two literary works, Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw and Rita polite by Willy Russell. Language and identity are two expressions that need to be explained. English is the official language in several countries; Chinese is the language spoken by the Chinese and Danish is the way the Danes speak. But languages ​​could also be described as different ways of speaking due to social background, education, profession, age and gender. A person's language is connected to his social situation. Eliza, the Cockney slum flower girl, does not speak the same language as Professor Higgins, even though English is their common native language. They speak differently because they belong to different social worlds. Identity can mean a person's very special characteristic, something that makes them different from others. EDUCATION AND CHANGE OF IDENTITY Eliza and Rita, the protagonists of the two plays, are both subject to identity changes over the course of the stories. Are these changes identical or can we find differences? The two young women originally come from intellectually poor backgrounds. Eliza is a young flower girl who speaks a poor language. She speaks in the following way: "There is no need to meddle with me, he is not." (1) Her manners are crude and her cockney accent makes her feel like she is a second class citizen. She is treated like this. However, she seems to be proud of herself: "I'm a good girl, I am." (2) Rita is a twenty-six-year-old hairdresser, brash and earthy, married to a beer-drinking Liverpool man who asks her to have children and be a good wife. She feels dissatisfied with her marriage. In the hairdressing salon where he works, he gets tired of listening to women who talk a lot every day without saying anything important. "They never tell you the things that matter." (3)The story of the two plays tells how women's education changes their lives. There is notable progress in their studies and the result is a noticeable change in their lives. INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL CHANGES would imagine that many readers and viewers of the two works consider them to be more or less the same story. In reality they are not. There is at least one important difference. The changes are not the same. One of them is external while the other is internal.