Pygmalion by https://padlet.com/17cboyden/jc2jc7ri3yl3 by George Bernard Shaw en-us 2016-12-19 16:43:16 UTC 2025-10-27 16:08:49 UTC hello@padlet.com Pygmalion 17cboyden https://padlet.com/17cboyden/jc2jc7ri3yl3/wish/144345693 by George Bernard Shaw]]> 2016-12-19 16:48:04 UTC https://padlet.com/17cboyden/jc2jc7ri3yl3/wish/144345693 Main Characters 17cboyden https://padlet.com/17cboyden/jc2jc7ri3yl3/wish/144491697 -Professor Henry Higgins: Specialist in phonetics, could be considered a mysogynist. Higgins is very rude and ignorant.
-Colonel Pickering: Author of Spoken Sanskrit who has come to England to meet Higgins. Pickering is very caring and patient with Eliza.
-Mrs. Pearce (Henry Higgins’ housekeeper): Doesn’t approve of the bet that Eliza is apart of and realizes how difficult it’s going to be.
-Eliza Doolittle: young, uneducated flower girl who agrees to receive lessons with Higgins to become more proper.
-Alfred Doolittle (Eliza’s father): Careless, believes he is “undeserving” and is content with being poor.
-Mrs. Higgins (Henry Higgins’ mother): Is aware that her son has bad manners towards women, loving him anyways.
-Freddy Eysnford-Hill: Young man who is in love with Eliza
]]> 2016-12-20 16:41:03 UTC https://padlet.com/17cboyden/jc2jc7ri3yl3/wish/144491697 Pot Summary 17cboyden https://padlet.com/17cboyden/jc2jc7ri3yl3/wish/144548348 The play begins when Freddy Eysnford-Hill goes out to catch a cab for his mother and sister, but accidentally runs into Eliza Doolittle and knocks all of her flowers that she is trying to sell to the ground. This is where we discover that Eliza has horrible manners and dialect. There is a big commotion between Eliza, Colonel Pickering and and Higgins because Eliza first believes that Higgins is a cop trying to arrest her, but in reality he’s just taking notes about her speech. Higgins made the comment that he could make her into a duchess. Eliza takes him up on that offer, but Mrs. Pearce finds it unethical right from the beginning. Pickering and Higgins make a bet that Higgins will have Eliza speaking and acting like a duchess in six months. Eliza is a slow learner and is very stubborn at that. Higgins treats her terribly and only sees her as an uneducated flower girl, while Pickering treats her like a lady. Her first test is at Mrs. Higgins’ home, where she officially meets Freddy, who instantly falls in love with her and the way she talks, even though she starts talking in slang again. The second test was at the ambassador’s party, which was a huge success. Pickering and Higgins congratulate each other, but Eliza is angry that she isn’t given any credit and she throws her slippers at Higgins. She runs away to visit her father, only to find out she doesn’t belong in her part of town anymore and that her father is now in the middle class because of Higgins and is to get married in the morning. Once Higgins and pickering discover that she is missing, he goes to search for her and finds her at Mrs. Higgins house. He asks for her to come back, but when she says she wants to be treated better, he says he’ll treat her the same because that’s how he treats everyone. She decides to marry Freddy and to go attend her father’s wedding.

]]> 2016-12-21 05:54:09 UTC https://padlet.com/17cboyden/jc2jc7ri3yl3/wish/144548348 Pygmalion and Galatea 17cboyden https://padlet.com/17cboyden/jc2jc7ri3yl3/wish/144548425 Pygmalion and the greek myth are similar in the way that the men in both stories who "created" the women feel like they own them and have the right to treat them the way they wish.]]> 2016-12-21 05:59:01 UTC https://padlet.com/17cboyden/jc2jc7ri3yl3/wish/144548425 Major Conflicts 17cboyden https://padlet.com/17cboyden/jc2jc7ri3yl3/wish/144548462 Conflict #1:Eliza has poor grammar and manners.
Resolution #1: Higgins gives her lessons for 6 months to teach her how to be a lady.

Conflict #2: Eliza feel unappreciated and mistreated by Higgins
Resolution #2: She leaves Higgins and starts a new life with Freddy]]> 2016-12-21 06:01:49 UTC https://padlet.com/17cboyden/jc2jc7ri3yl3/wish/144548462 Setting 17cboyden https://padlet.com/17cboyden/jc2jc7ri3yl3/wish/144548555 London, England in the 20th century 

This is significant because England is well-known for having proper english, especially in the 20th century.]]> 2016-12-21 06:06:31 UTC https://padlet.com/17cboyden/jc2jc7ri3yl3/wish/144548555 Character Motivations 17cboyden https://padlet.com/17cboyden/jc2jc7ri3yl3/wish/144548626 Henry Higgins is very persistent. Even though almost everyone told him not to go through with it, he did it anyways and mostly came out successful. 

Eliza Doolittle wants to be accepted and to prove everyone wrong, so even though she is stubborn and is slow to learn, she is determined to learn how to speak well and act like a lady.

Colonel Pickering is very kind and wants Eliza to learn how to be a lady for her own good, not just for the bet's sake. He's very kind to her and treats her like a lady so she acts like a lady. ]]> 2016-12-21 06:10:27 UTC https://padlet.com/17cboyden/jc2jc7ri3yl3/wish/144548626 Rating 17cboyden https://padlet.com/17cboyden/jc2jc7ri3yl3/wish/144605918 I would give this play 3 out of 5 stars. I liked the majority of the plot and how Eliza became more proper and independent, but the end through me off and was anticlimactic. ]]> 2016-12-21 16:19:02 UTC https://padlet.com/17cboyden/jc2jc7ri3yl3/wish/144605918