7th+Period+Pygmalion+Themes

Themes:
Two Characters: Henry Higgins teaches Eliza about being a lady. Alfred Doolittle is perceived as educated because of wealth and Higgins’s good word. Three Scenarios: Higgins shows off his ability to tell where people are from by their accent. Higgins teaches Eliza how to be a lady. Alfred Doolittle complains of money. Seven Quotes: “Simply phonetics. The science of speech. That my profession: also my hobby. Happy is the man who can make a living by his hobby! You can spot an Irishman or a Yorkshireman by his brogue. I can place any man within six miles. I can place him within two miles in London. Sometimes within two streets.” – Henry Higgins, pg. 21-22 “You see this creature with her kerbstone English: the English that will keep her in the gutter to the end of her days. Well, sir, in three months I could pass that girl off as a duchess at an ambassador’s garden party. I could even get her a place as lady’s maid or shop assistant, which requires better English.” – Henry Higgins, pg. 23 “Oh, that comes with practice. You hear no difference at first; but you keep on listening, and presently you find theyre all as different as A from B.” – Henry Higgins, pg. 31 “Do what he tells you; and let him teach you in his own way.” – Colonel Pickering, pg. 64 “Oh, thatll be alright. Ive taught her to speak properly; and she has strict orders as to her behavior. She’s to keep to two subjects: the weather and everybody’s health – Fine day and How do you do, you know – and not to let herself go on things in general. That will be safe.” – Henry Higgins, pg. 70 “You will jolly soon see whether she has an idea that I havnt put into her head or word that I havnt put into her mouth. I tell you I have created this thing out of the squashed cabbage leaves of Covent Garden.” – Henry Higgins, pg. 118 “Teach him my methods! My discoveries!” – Henry Higgins, pg. 131
 * //Education//** (Charles, Rebecca, Drew)

Two People that represent the theme: Mrs. Pearce and Mr. Higgins Mrs. Pearce- “You must be reasonable, Mr. Higgins; really you must, you can’t walk over everybody like this.” Higgins is trying to take Eliza in under his wing and claim her as his own, and form her into a perfect young woman. Pickering- “Have you no morals?” Doolittle- “I can’t afford them.” This is when Doolittle is trying to get money for his daughter, because Higgins has taken the girl. Doolittle- “I have heard all of the prime minister and all of the preachers, for I am a thinking man, and game for politics or religion, or social reform, same as all the other amusements.” He is talking to Higgins about the money that he wants for giving Eliza to Higgins. Mrs. Pearce- “Nonsense girl, what do you think a gentleman like Mr. Higgins cares what you came in?” This is when Liza comes to see Mr. Higgins and she is being really rude to Mr. Higgins and Mrs. Pearce isn’t having it. Liza- "I sold flowers. I didn't sell myself. Now you've made a lady of me I'm not fit to sell anything else." This is when Liza is with Higgins at the end of the story, and she said that she no cannot do anything anymore. Ms. Eynsford Hill- “Do nothing of the sort, mother. The idea.” The daughter did not want her mother to buy the flowers from Liza. Doolittle- “See you in Saint Georges, Eliza.” This is where he is going to get married to Eliza.
 * //Theme???//** (Jonathan & Thomas)

//**Appearance vs. Reality**// (Sumerlin, Carol, Lacey)

Characters: Eliza Doolittle Eynsford-Hill family

Scenarios: 1. Eliza is mistaken for a Hungarian princess. 2. Mrs. Higgens “at home” day; Eliza looks presentable but true self comes out when she speaks. 3. Eynsford-Hill refuse to go out in the rain. They would only go in a cab.

Quotes: 1) pg. 78 Liza: “Walk! Not bloody likely.” Mrs. Eynsford-Hill: “Well, I really can’t get used to the new ways.” -Mrs. Enynsford-Hill thinks that this is a new slang, when it is really Liza’s ignorance. 2) pg. 13 Liza: “Nah then, Freddy: look wh’y’ goin deah.” Mrs. Enysford-Hill: “How do you know that my son’s name is Freddy?” Liza: “ I just called him Freddy or Charlie. Same as you might yourself if you was talking to a stranger and wish to be pleasant.” - Mrs. Enysford-Hill is wondering how Liza knows her son, but Liza just calls strangers by any name. 3) pg. 75 Mrs. Enysford-Hill: “I feel sure we have met before, Ms. Doolittle. I remember your eyes.” - Mrs. Enysford-Hill thinks she knows Liza from some elegant party, but is actually familiar with her as a flower-girl. 4) pg. 88 Nepommuck: “This Greek diplomatist pretends he cannot speak nor understand English. He cannot deceive me…” - The translator (Nepommuck) knows that the Greek diplomatist knows English but goes along with appearances rather than reality. 5) pg. 90 Hostess: “But if she is not English what is she?” Nepommuck: “Hungarian, and of royal blood… she is a princess.” - Liza has passed the test since the translator (Nepommuck) believes Liza is a princess and is fooled by her appearances. 6) pg. 91 Liza: “An old lady has just told me that I speak exactly like Queen Victoria. I’m sorry if I have lost your bet.” - This proves that Liza speaking skills have improved.

7) pg. 13 Daughter: “And what about us? Are we to stay here in this draught with next to nothing on, you selfish pig.” - The Enysford-Hill women are very caught up in appearances and refuse to walk home in the rain. They insist on taking a cab.

//**Social Class (**//Raines, Billy) Quotes: Characters: Scenarios:
 * 1) The Flower Girl, "Nah then, Freddy: look wh' y' gowin, deah," Act 1, pg. 13
 * 2) Higgins, "It's almost irresistible. She is so deliciously low - so horribly dirty" Act 2, pg. 36
 * 3) Eliza, "Walk! Not bloody likely [Sensation]. I am going to take a taxi." Act 3, pg. 78
 * 4) Higgins, "You have no idea how frightfully interesting it is to take a human being and change her into a quite different human being by creating a new speech for her. It's filling up the deepest gulf that separates class from class and soul from soul." Act 3, pg. 82
 * 5) Note Taker (Henry Higgins), "A woman who utters such depressing and disgusting sounds has no right to be anywhere - no right to live. Remember that you are a human being with a soul and the divine gift or articulate speech: that your native language is the language of Shakespear and Milton and The Bible; and don't sit there crooning like a bilious pigeon." Act 1, pg. 22
 * 6) Mr. Doolittle, "Well whats a five-pound note to you? And whats Eliza to me?" Act 2, pg. 53
 * 7) Higgins, “can he make anything of you?” Act 5 pg. 129
 * 1) Henry Higgins
 * 2) Liza (Eliza) Doolittle
 * 1) Act 1 Liza meets Higgins in the rain.
 * 2) Act 2 Liza shows up to Higgins’ house.
 * 3) Act 5 Higgins and Liza Fighting over who was the reason Higgins won the bet.

//**Money**// (Charlie, Natalie) 7 quotations: 2 characters: 3 scenarios:
 * 1) The Gentleman (Mr. Pickering): “Now don’t be troublesome: theres a good girl. I really havnt any change---Stop: heres three hapence, if that’s any use to you.” (page 15)
 * 2) Pickering: “I’ll say you are the greatest teacher alive if you make that good. I’ll bet you all the expenses of the experiment you can’t do it and I’ll pay for the lesson.” (page 25)
 * 3) The Flower Girl: “…Did you tell him I come in a taxi?” (page 32)
 * 4) Doolittle: “Landlady wouldn’t have trusted me with it, Governor. She’s that kind of woman: you know. I had to give the boy a penny afore he trusted me with it, the little swine. I brought it to her just to oblige you like, and make myself agreeable. That’s all.” (page 54)
 * 5) Pickering: “Have you no morals, man?” Doolittle: “cant afford them, Governor. Neither could you if you was as poor as me…” (page 57)
 * 6) Higgins: “…you go to bed and have a good nice rest; and then get up and look at yourself in the glass; and you won’t feel so cheap.” (page 99)
 * 7) Doolittle: “Intimidated: that’s what I am. Broke. Bought up. Happier men than me will call for my dust, and touch me for their tip; and I’ll look on helpless, and envy them. And that is what your son has brought me to.” (page 113)
 * 1) Henry Higgins- represents money because that is what his whole career is based on. Higgins talks about how many times he gets a rich man’s wife and has to train her to sound like a lady. This shows that Higgins thinks that with money comes the whole respect issue and the only way to be expected is to sound like a noble and act like one
 * 2) Alfred Doolittle- is a great representation of money because in the beginning of the play he is talking to Higgins about how poor he is and how he is undeserving and just bums money off other people and towards the end of the play he talks about how he is supposed to give these lectures now at 3000 pounds a year and now he is mad because he feels like that having money means you have to provide for the “undeserving people”
 * 1) A good scenario that is rather messed up dealing with money is when Doolittle first comes to Higgins. They talk and then Doolittle asks for money and he is essentially selling his daughter to Higgins although he doesn’t directly say it.
 * 2) Another scenario that deals with money is the whole bet scheme. Money to Higgins and Pickering is something that is meant to buy entertainment in this case gambling where as to others in the play, every small amount of money counts.
 * 3) A third scenario dealing with money is in the end when Higgins is trying to get Liza to come back and live with him. They talk along time about why she should and why Liza doesn’t want to and then eventually Higgins says he will adopt her and settle money on it. I took this as the fact that Higgins believes money is the key to everything when in essence its not. Money is just a means of living to Liza, she cares more about love and relationships than money.