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So, with reference to Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, this paper engages in questioning whether her works, as famous literary works of the nineteenth century which satirically depict the original social context of the time, influenced the social mind toward the Victorian reformation. Jane Austen, in her six published novels, has scrutinized the true essence of the Church of England from her specific glasses of sharpness. Although, after industrialization, the British society went toward a religious reformation in the Victorian era, some historians consider the early nineteenth century England as the 'Golden age' of England's ecclesiastical imperialism. The Church of England, the greatest Anglican establishment and the symbol of Great Britain's imperialism, has been the juncture of English history and literature throughout history. Lastly, this study seeks to elucidate how the indoctrination of class identity takes place via language in the context of Shaw's Pygmalion. Moreover, this study examines Shaw and Arnold as social critics to question whether they are Organic Intellectuals who serve the upper-class ideology or represent objective ideas alienated from upper-class ideology. While Arnold does not envisage the same sort of education for the working-class Victorians for their inability to learn and become culturally equal to the upper-class Victorians, Shaw represents an opposing view where he endows Eliza Doolittle with energy to excel the upper-class ideals.

In Shaw's work, Eliza Doolittle represents the Victorian working-class while Higgins represents the Victorian upper-class. Arnold's concept of culture is further investigated in terms of Marxist criticism. This study investigates Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion in light of Matthew Arnold's Culture and Anarchy to elucidate how Arnoldian paradigms impose social and cultural behaviours to each Victorian social class by limiting and defining class identity. Victorian social classes are marked differently by various scholars. The representations of Victorian identity take place through active discourses which aim to indoctrinate Victorian people with certain characteristics to form class identity.