Falling in Love with One's Own Creation

It may be an abstruse concept for a plethora of people to think that you can fall in love with your own creation. However, it is envisioned through 'The myth of Pygmalion and Galatea', Ovid's narrative poem, 'Metamorphoses', Pygmalion by Bernard Show and lastly, the renowned movie 'My fair lady'.

We may not think that it is possible to fall in love with your own creation and that it belongs to the fictional world, full of stories to delight our imagination. It may be a feeling that we haven't encountered yet and, therefore, we may think that it is unimaginable to have such feelings or desires.

Unfortunately it isn't clearly declared how you fall in love with your own creation. We all have to acquiesce to the fact that once in our lifetime we couldn't get rid of one of our belongings. You don't fall directly in love with it but you have a connection with that object you appreciate. It may be a painting, a sculpture, a term paper, a test, a toy or even something you have created using your computer.

For instance, both in 'The myth of Pygmalion and Galatea' and in 'Metamorphoses' by Ovid we may find the protagonist who falls in love with his own creation. We have Pygmalion who made a statue out of ivory and fell in love with it because of some other factors. In the myth, he made it so perfect that he couldn't find a woman more beautiful than it. In the narrative poem, after he had seen that woman started doing prostitution, he expressed his love to the statue because he knew it was pure. In the end, after Aphrodite put a soul inside the statue, Pygmalion starts a family with the woman the statue becomes.

We fortunately have the play 'Pygmalion' by Bernard Shaw which portraits the poem and myth mentioned above.

Furthermore, in the movie 'My fair lady' we may find Henry Higgins who was an arrogant professor of phonetics. Eliza is a young woman who asks for his help because she wants to get a job at a flower shop. At first, he treats her miserably and doesn't heed to her when she speaks. When she finally starts to have an astonishing speech, out of the blue, Henry falls in love with her look and her voice. This is another example of how a person falls in love with his own creation, only that Mr Higgins hadn't contributed a lot to it.

Given the above mentions, this hypothesis still needs to be debunked. Moreover, the factors which make characters to fall in love with their creation can't be adapted to humans.