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Flower Garden T G
1,066 wordsEliza Henry is a talented, strong-willed woman who will not take charge of her own life. In other words, she is a mass of contradictions. On one hand she yearns to leave her prison of a marriage for a more exciting and fulfilling life. On the other, Eliza realizes the limitations pressed upon women and does the best she can to make her situation better. Eliza realizes her marriage is in trouble, there is no passion between her and her husband, but she insists on staying because she believes that...
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Alfred Doolittle Ha Ha
1,270 wordsHiggins and Pickering show up the next day at Mrs. Higgins' home in a state of distraction because Eliza has run away. They are interrupted by Alfred Doolittle, who enters resplendently dressed, as if he were the bridegroom of a very fashionable wedding. He has come to take issue with Henry Higgins for destroying his happiness. It turns out that Higgins wrote a letter to a millionaire jokingly recommending Doolittle as a most original moralist, so that in his will the millionaire left Doolittle ...
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Outlook On Life Henry Higgins
946 wordsNumerous times a piece of literature is changed into a movie or musical its plot and or theme has been changed to suit the directors thought of what would appeal to the public. One such example is Bernard Shaw's play Pygmalion. In this play Shaw's purpose and ideas were horribly misconstrued to the point at which he was forced to write an Epilogue to try to reconcile the injustice done to his masterpiece. In the Epilogue he bluntly expressed his points and purposes so that the ignorant public co...
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Water For Chocolate Mama Elena
1,073 wordsAn evil stepmother, two wicked stepsisters a kind girl whisked away by the handsome prince. Once upon a time and happily ever after. Can't be wrapped up neatly into 4 pages. More complex plots, still lead to that same happy ending. Higgins, Mama Elena, and the stepmother all serve as obstacles between their respective lead heroines and happiness. Transform to overcome Each lead heroine battles her tyrant in a different way, but ultimately all three women overcome the obstacle and secure their ha...
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Pygmalion My Fair Lady
637 wordsPygmalion & My Fair Lady 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. The opening scene is after an opera. The higher class people spill out into the streets. It is here that Eliza is selling her flowers. Eliza is a poor girl with a very thick accent. She is a respectable gir...
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Professor Higgins Proper Bath Eliza
613 wordsPygmalion Shaw, Bernard. Pygmalion. Creation of Eliza can be viewed from two completely different angles dependent on if you look at Eliza's side or Professor Higgins side. Beginning with Eliza we see that she was a poor flower girl who sold penny bunches to afford a living. Her living accommodations were described as shabby room with a bed heaped with all sorts of coverings that may have some warmth value, a packing case with a basin and jug on it, a looking glass, unused fireplace, and an oil ...
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Middle Of The Night Play The Piano
1,310 wordsDaughter of Fortune In the book, Daughter of Fortune, by Isabel Allende, the characters are ever changing. You have Eliza, who through most of the novel dresses as a boy, Jacob Todd who transitions between a Bible salesman and a newspaper reporter, Joe Bonecrusher who transitions from a tough, emotionless woman to a very caring person, and Joaquin who transitions from an innocent, poor Chilean boy to a person who is hunted down and killed. Many of the characters in Daughter of Fortune experience...
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Mise En Scene Alfred Doolittle
1,531 wordsSegmentation Chart The following is a segmentation chart of the movie My Fair Lady. This movie was filmed in 1964 and directed by George Color. Sequences: 1. Music Hall/ Marketplace a. Eliza sells flowers to Pickering. b. Eliza meets Here Higgins. c. Eliza sings of the future. 2. Morning in front of the Music Hall/ Marketplace a. Alfred Doolittle waits for Eliza. 3. Mr. Higgins House a. Eliza offers Higgins and Pickering money for phonics lessons. b. Higgins and Pickering make a wager and then p...
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George Bernard Shaw Amount Of Money
2,519 wordsGeorge Bernard Shaw was born in Dublin, Ireland on July 26, 1856. He lived with his lower middle class parents as the first son of three children. His father owned a failing corn milling business and had a serious drinking problem. Shaw realized the effect of his father? s poor money management and alcohol addiction at an early age. (Mazer 1) Although the family claimed gentility their precarious money situations and Shaw? s poor education caused an ever growing tension in his family. (Ganz 6 - ...
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Colonel Pickering Outward Appearance
1,588 wordsHow Does Shaw Use Dramatic Effect To How Does Shaw Use Dramatic Effect To Emphasize The Change In Eliza? The most obvious change in Eliza is her progression from being a flower girl in act 1 to a poised, well spoken lady we see in acts 4 and 5. Shaw describes Eliza as? not at all a romantic figure. Perhaps eighteen, perhaps twenty, hardly older. ? She is loud with a strong cockney accent. Her first words are unintelligible. And to show this Shaw has written it in the phonetic alphabet, to stress...
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Months Ago Doesn T
1,530 wordsHow What Higgins Says Alters Relationships And How What Higgins Says Alters Relationships And Personalities Simply phonetics. The science of speech. That? s my profession: also my hobby. Happy is the man who can make a living out of his hobby. You can spot Irishman or a Yorkshireman by his brogue. I can place any man within smiles. I can place within two miles in London. Sometimes within two streets. (p 26) When Higgins says this he is in Covent Garden taking down the flower girls phonetics, he ...
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Colonel Pickering Professor Higgins
821 wordsIn the opening scene of the play / musical we meet all of the main characters, Professor Henry Higgins, Eliza Doolittle, and Colonel Pickering. It is also here that they are each introduced to one another. After an evening at the opera, the members of high society begin spilling out onto streets of London, mingling with the commoners. Professor Higgins hear, Eliza, the flower girl, speaking and begins to take notes. Eliza finds this behavior suspicious and thinks that she is in some sort of trou...
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George Bernard Shaw Upper Class Society
1,564 wordsPygmalion and My Fair Lady are a modern parallel of the story of Pygmalion, legendary sculptor and King of Cyprus, who fell in love with his own statue of Aphrodite. At his prayer, Aphrodite brought the statue to life as Galatea. George Bernard Shaw's play Pygmalion is the story of Henry Higgins, a master phonetician, and his mischievous plot to pass a common flower girl, Eliza Doolittle, off as a duchess at the Embassy Ball. In order to achieve his goal, Higgins must teach Eliza how to speak pr...
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Colonel Pickering Alfred Doolittle
1,215 wordsIn Act 3 we learned a lot more about the character and philosophy of Alfred Doolittle. He is strangely individualistic personally and very eloquent. He is representative of the social class of the " undeserving poor" , which, means that he is not entitled to receive financial support from the government, since he is physically able to work. He lives only for the moment; from day to day. The money he gets he wastes on intoxicating himself, and he has no intentions of taking any serious ...
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