![]() In the same spirit, Eliza Doolittle stuns and astounds everybody in the ambassador's party. She becomes a beautiful and skilled young woman due to her training. These merits brings a kind of drastic change in her life as she has been taught English phonetics by Pro. The readers come to know about Eliza that she is a hard-working girl and possesses some natural merits. The training expands the horizon of her knowledge. The new routine, the strict disciple, and proper training enable Eliza to know more about her life. During her training, Eliza undergoes changed life. Colonel Pickering will bear the expenditure and Eliza will serve as the subject for their experiment.Įliza believes in enjoying every moment of her life even in adverse condition. Higgins gives his consent to for the training and teaching of English phonetics and pronunciation and eventually transforms Eliza, the flower girl, into a cultured and stylish girl. The real action of the drama starts from this point as Mr. Higgins also accepts her offer as he also wants the same. Higgins to make her a polished and sophisticated lady and Mr. Higgins' words of encouragement arouses some sort of new zeal in her and they fires her ambition. Henry Higgins who is a professor of Phonetics and Colonel Pickering and this meeting of her transforms Eliza's life. She cherishes a dream to become an assistant of a florist. She earns her livelihood by selling flowers. ![]() The readers come to know that Eliza is an inhabitant of a London slum. The play is known as a " Romance in Five Acts".Įliza Doolittle is a good-natured girl and a natural daughter of Alfred Doolittle, the dustman. Henry Higgins plays the role of Pygmalion and Eliza Doolittle becomes Galatea, the beautiful statue that comes into being. ![]() The title of the play is closely associated with her and the whole play revolves round her. And if you don't promise to behave yourself, I must ask you to leave.Eliza Doolittle is one of the prominent characters of George Bernard Shaw's play " Pygmalion". How did this baggage get here in the first place?Įliza came to see me this morning and I was delighted to have her. No woman could resist such an invitation. You've caused me enough trouble for one morning. Now, you get up and come home and stop being a fool. Would you care for some tea?ĭon't you dare try that game on me. Well, if I was doing it proper, what was you sniggering at? Have I said anything I oughtn't? The new small talk, you do it so awfully well. Besides, he poured so much down his own throat, he knew the good of it. Surely you don't think someone killed her?ĭo I not? Them she lived with would have killed her for a hatpin, let alone a hat.īut it can't have been right for your father to be pouring spirits down her throat like that. It's the new slang, meaning someone has killed her. And what I say is: them as pinched it, done her in. Now, what call would a woman with that strength in her have to die of influenza? And what become of her new straw hat that should have come to me? Then she come to so sudden she bit the bowl right off the spoon. But my father, he kept ladling gin down her throat. Why should she die of influenza, when she come through diphtheria right enough the year before? Fairly blue with it she was. But it's my belief they done the old woman in. My aunt died of influenza, or so they said. And the whole of our family is susceptible to it. I do hope we won't have any unseasonable cold spells they bring on so much influenza. You can twist the heart in a girl the same way some fellows twist her arms to hurt her! When you feel lonesome without me you can turn it on. Well, you have my voice on your phonograph. You've never wondered, I suppose, whether. So you are a motor bus! All bounce and go, and no consideration for anybody. You talk about me as though I were a motor bus. Well then, get out of my way, for I won't stop for you. I shouldn't mind a black eye I've had one before this. The question is not whether I treat you rudely, but whether you've ever heard me treat anyone else better. You see, the great secret, Eliza, is not a question of good manners or bad manners, or any particular sort of manners, but having the same manner for all human souls.
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