In the platy Pygmalion Eliza Doolittle was just a poor flower girl who couldn’t speak proper English. One rainy day a young boy by the name of Freddy ran into Eliza, trampling her flowers. Eliza then goes into a fit of rage for the money she will lose over the flowers. That was the moment she was discovered by Henry, a scientist of phonetics and Pickering a linguist of Indian dialect. They men were intrigued by the way she spoke and Henry began to make fun and said that he could teach her proper English. Eliza then went to Henry’s home and took him up on his proposition. Henry and Pickering went on a six month journey to train Eliza to speak so proper that she could pass her off as a duchess at an ambassador’s garden party. Once the six months …show more content…
One day while working a candidate’s event he started up a conversation with Hannah Higgins, who was running for Congress. Hannah began to mock his speech and tell him how she could fix it; Colline Pickering, Hannah’s campaign manager apologized to the young man and they go on their way. Eliet comes by Hannah and Collines building and asks them to help him talk proper so he can get a higher up position at his work. At first Hannah says no, but then she begins to think of how she lost her election and there is going to be a reelection. She knows that she stands no chance in the reelection, because she is not well liked, but she notices how Eliet can talk to anyone and make them smile. She gets the idea to clean him up and have him run for the Congressional seat. Hannah isn’t up front with Eliet about putting him in the election; once he figures out what she is up to he is raged. He then thinks it over and runs for the office winning the election. Hannah and Eliet then fall in …show more content…
The movie maker did however throw the spectators for a twist with the switch of the genders of the characters. One of the main characters of the play Pygmalion Eliza Doolittle was an innocent little flower girl, but in the Movie this role was played by a boy by the name of Eliet Doolittle. Eliet also had a different job than Eliza, he was a beer distributer. Some of the other main characters include Henry Higgins and Colonel Pickering which were played as men in the play but were played by women in the movie by the names of Hannah Higgins and Colline
Every time when Hope leaves a place, she always writes “ Hope Was Here” in a unnoticeable place as her way of saying goodbye. Addie and Hope get a job at the Welcome Stairways in Mulhoney. Owner G.T. Stoop hires Addie as the head chef and Hope as the waitress. G.T. has been treated with leukemia and needs all the help he can get. When Addie and Hope arrived, G.T. announces that he wants to run for mayor. He can’t stand how the corrupt Eli Millstone takes cares of the city, Eli has been in office for eight years, and wants to make sure Mulhoney is a safe place while he still can. Millstone works with the Real Fresh Dairy, so he could get votes from the workers. In exchange for the votes, Millstone lets them do anything and not get in trouble. Real Fresh Dairy is disliked by the citizens because of the things they do to the city. The things the Dairy does is not pay taxes, cracking roads with overweight trucks, and disturbing the peace with their big milk
Grant Matthews’s girlfriend Kay Thorndyke and Jim Conover want to make him the next President to do so the relationship between Mr. Matthews and Ms. Thorndyke has to end. To carry out this Mary Matthews joins her husband and travels with him, she supports her husband’s effort to help everyone in America, but also witnesses her husband be brainwashed by his campaign managers to target the influential politicians. Before her, infuriated monologue Mrs. Matthews let Mr. Matthews know that the kids and her would no longer be giving speeches because he wasn’t the man they knew, the man who would stand up for the poor now he was just as corrupt as the politicians he worked with, their goal to win the presidential elections, in this monologue she used emotional appeal to make Mr. Matthews understand that he had changed.
Hannah and Mitch are from two different cliques which causes a problem with their relationship. When Hannah and Mitch are together, their relationship is good and fun, but when they are around his friends, the popular crowd, it is awkward and he barely talks to her. Mitch ends up breaking up with Hannah over text message and crushed her yet again. She then is determined to get away from Warsaw. Going to California causes an argument with her parents; she wants to get away from Warsaw and claims it is bad for her. She also tells her parents she does not want to end up like them. After graduating, she does move to California to being her residency. Hannah stayed in California for eight months and realized she hated it. She then moved to New York where she began school and loved
Hannah, a freshman in college, has had a life of asthma, major depression, and epilepsy. While on theatrical stage in her first college debut, Hannah collapses on stage in a seizure. After running tests on Hannah in the hospital, the doctor suggests that her lifelong health issues could possibly be because she is a survivor of abortion. This is the first time Hannah not only learns she’s an abortion survivor, but adopted too. In anguish and searching for answers, Hannah journeys with her friends to Mobile, Alabama in search of her birthmother. When Hannah first reconnects with her birthmother, Cindy, tracking her down at her work office, Cindy rejects her yet as again as she did at her failed abortion. Hannah finds herself asking God what to do in her situation.
Hannah grew up as an ordinary Maldivian girl. She was the top of her class unfortunately she had to graduate in year 11 so she could take care of her grandmother. Soon she has the offer to be taken to America with fake documents and no money to soon find out the “American dream” wasn’t what she thought it was going to be. She will do whatever it takes to survive the 16 hour days and verbally abusive mother.
Elize’s husband gets arrested and incarcerated at the wrong time thought, and now Stacey is all by herself with a baby due soon and she needs money to pay her debt and to help her baby. Everything just went downhill in a split second. She doesn't really know what to do so her best option was to write a letter to her father in law and ask for some money to help her in the time of need. In her letter she persuades her father in law to help her because she does not know what to do and she is in debt and with her baby due soon she is losing her mind. She uses a lot of emotion behind her words to convince her father in law for the money.
Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw is a play that shows a great change in the character Eliza Doolittle. As Eliza lives in poverty, she sells flowers to earn her living. Eliza does not have an education. This shows through the way that she does not have the most proper way of speaking. This happens through when Eliza is speaking to the other characters when she meets then when she is still at a low level of poverty in her life. To understand the reasons Eliza is able to change and be changed into an almost Cinderella like character. With Eliza going from and growing and changing through the hardship she faces. In the play Eliza begins with no confidence and works towards having a way to reach trough from learning during her life
It is obvious that Shaw shows us both the transformation and identity of Eliza throughout the play. Shaw introduces us to the protagonists and tell us that Eliza has a "problem". Eliza was shown at the beginning of the play with poor speech with a foul mouth.
In the movie, Higgins targeted phonological features proper of Eliza’s Cockney dialect. According to Higgins, Eliza’s accent should be modified to “transform” her into a fine lady. The undesired behavior was weakened by a series of reinforcements based on punishment and reward. Eliza was offered chocolate, for example, when she correctly pronounced a set of sentences. Once Eliza achieve the “correct” pronunciation she was offered multiple rewards. For example, she attended the Ascot Horse Race, for which she was offered a new wardrobe.
Eliza changed herself for the better. In act 5, she told the two men to start calling her “Miss Doolittle” and that was the beginning of learning her self worth. She was done being treated like a “live doll” and began to see herself like a Duchess, like Higgins
The play Pygmalion and My Fair Lady, the musical, are the same story. The only major difference between the two, is that My Fair Lady has songs added to the dialogue. I believe the musical version is more enjoyable because the music adds more feeling to the story.
While Eli finds himself in a terrible situation, getting rejected to a high school, which his family gave substantial donations. Therefore, he does not know how to go about this issue. He feels ashamed and decides to destroy his rejection letter and to remain silent. More than the fear of getting rejected Eli is most of all frightened by his father response. Eli’s father is a stubborn man who inherited wealth and who has a high standard and high expectations of his family. He does not like to ask for favors. As the family was driving in the Rolls Royce headed for Whitehall High school, Eli’s parents who have assumed he is to be welcomed with open arms cannot understand why Eli seems so despondent. When seated in Whitehall, they noticed, Mr. Warren, the president of the high-school coming toward them, at that moment Eli makes a dash and runs away. Dr. Remenazal and Sylvia realizes that Eli has been rejected. Although Dr. Remenazal told Eli that he should not expect extra treatment, nevertheless, Dr. Remenazal tried using his family’s privilege, but to no avail. The Whitehills administration won’t give in. In the end, Dr. Remenazal has come to terms with his son becoming a growing adult of his
The play "Pygmalion" describes the process of the transformation of Eliza, who appears in three images in the story: Eliza begins as a flower girl, then she transforms into a lady with noble accent and in good manners, then an independent woman with self-respect and dignity.
Class distinctions are made abundantly clear in Shaw’s “Pygmalion.” Eliza is representative of Shaw’s view of the English working class of the day: Crude, crass, and seemingly unintelligent yet worthy of pity. Equal criticism is leveled at the upper classes, who pass judgement upon the poor precipitated by their appearance and mannerisms. Higgins and Pickering’s attitude towards Eliza is one of derision, stemming from their difference in social status. For instance, Higgins’ open mockery of Eliza’s speech: “You see this creature with her kerbstone English: the English that will keep her in the gutter to the end of her days.” (Shaw.
In the Victorian England period, how a person is viewed by society determines everything. What kind of jobs are available, who it is ok to marry, and even who is acceptable to interact with. How a person is viewed can change their life for better or for worse, and sadly women during this period must work twice as hard as their male counterparts to get the crucial social respect needed to succeed in their societies. How a person appears and how they dress plays a big part on how someone is viewed, but flower-girl-turned-duchess Eliza Doolittle must learn the hard way that just because a person fits the outside criteria of a lady does not exactly mean she would be treated as so, by society and most of all her mentor Henry Higgins. Throughout the play, Pygmalion, By George Bernard Shaw, the author makes the theme of prejudice against women very apparent by the way they are treated in society and the unreasonable expectations they are held up to, making it very difficult for women like Eliza Doolittle to move up in society and be seen as equal in the eyes of those above them.