Pygmalion and The Makeover are stories that mirror each other. A person of low social class is taken from the streets and is taught to speak properly. A bet is made between a character with the last name Higgins and a character named Pickering that Higgins could not achieve this result. The stories are demonstrating the importance of education in a social situation. Pygmalion begins with a flower girl on the street caught in a rain storm. She seek shelter in a crowd of people with hopes to sell some flowers. A gentleman named Higgins viewed her in this circumstance. Ms. Doolittle later came to Higgins and Pickering’s office in a request for speaking lessons. She wants to be able to sell flowers in a flower shop. Ms. Doolittle demanded …show more content…
If Higgins could present her at the Embassy Ball and pass her off as a lady, Pickering would pay for all of the lessons and materials used to achieve this, if Higgins failed he would absorb the cost. Mr. Doolittle her father comes demanding a little money for his daughter but not too much because he does not want to be responsible with it. The lessons go on for six months while Ms. Doolittle lives in Higgins’s house. Mrs. Pierce and Pickering were Ms. Doolittle’s friend in the house. At the Ball, she passed as a lady and some people even thought that Ms. Doolittle was a princess. The Makeover begins with Higgins running in an election to become a senator. She has very poor social skills because she speaks with great education but her underlying ideas are excellent. She loses the election due to …show more content…
They both feature characters named Higgins, Pickering, and Doolittle with the same role assigned to each name. Both are trying to promote a lower class and less educated person off as a well educated person suitable in a high social class situation. Doolittle's parent in both stories come looking for some money to spend irresponsibly when they discover that their child is going to be used in this "experiment" The characters in both stories are successful in becoming a representative in the higher class. Both stories have the Doolittle experimented on becoming aggressive and outraged at the end of the "experiment" but then calming down and being
The basic premise of the two plots is the same. Both stories deal with the capture of a young person who is to be groomed to live in a private, controlled environment to make them happy, but where they are never able to leave.
A fairly obvious comparison between these two stories is the setting in which they take place. Both occur in New England territory, mainly in the forests and hilly country. It also seems as if the land in each of the tales is rocky and hard to work. The geographical features of these lands sound much the same. In fact, each of the two takes place in an area very close to, if not in, Massachusetts. Tom Walker lives a few miles from Boston, while Jabez Stone lives in New Hampshire, near the area where that state meets up with Vermont and Massachusetts. Daniel Webster lives in Massachusetts, in a town called Marshfield. The geographical and cartographical similarities here show an obvious parallel between the two.
Secondly, both stories use dialogue.... ... middle of paper ... ... Both stories use dialogue to give insight to the characters and why they behave in a certain manner.
After marrying Mr. Wright, Minnie was taken out of her usual habitat. She moved into “a lonesome-looking place.” Her new home sat in a secluded hollow surrounded by trees. She took on the role of a housewife in her small humble abode. Life as the social Minnie Foster was much different from her homely life as Mrs. Wright. Instead of wearing the pretty white dresses with blue ribbons while singing in the choir “like a bird” in her younger years, she now dresses in worn out and patched clothing while she performs her household chores such as keeping up the kitchen, taking care of her fruits, and piecing a quilt. Her setting drastically changed how Minnie acted and even dressed.
Finally, both authors do a good job of holding back and letting the stories unfold slowly. You know the conclusion in the first story and in the second you must decide the ending for yourself. The stories, therefore, showed some similar aspects as well as some major differences. The stories were very enjoyable to read.
My fair lady is movie about a flower girl named Eliza Doolittle and a man named Henry Higgins of Phonetics. One night professor Higgins was at the Covent Garden market talking to his friend Colonel Pickering. While Eliza was selling flowers she overheard Higgins and Pickering talking. Higgins told Pickering that he can make anyone fluent in the English language the proper way. Eliza later found where Higgins lived and wanted to him to teach her how to speak like a proper lady in a flower shop. Higgins did not want to. Pickering at that time was at Higgins house and he bet that Higgins could not teach Eliza to how to speak as a proper lady and make her a duchess. Higgins at that moment bet. Higgins bet Pickering that he can teach Eliza to speak and be a duchess within 3 months. Over these several months Eliza who moved into Higgins household is put through depressive lessons. Eliza eventually was ready for the big day when she was tested in her skills. Eliza went to the embassy Ball. She was very beautiful, elegant and well-spoken and she proved to be very successful in Higgins and Pickering’s bet. She especially impressed a man named Freddy Eynsford-Hill falls in love with her. After the ball Higgins, Picke...
Miss Brill is advanced in years. She has been coming weekly to the gardens for “‘a long time’” (100). Furthermore, the two young lovers describe her as an “‘an old thing”’ (100).
In Pygmalion ,by Bernard Shaw, a story is about a poor girl, Eliza Doolittle who wants to learn how to speak properly. Higgins sees Eliza selling flowers on the curbside and makes a bet to Pickering that he could change the way she speaks. These two characters are basically the same. Some people may not think these two characters
Overall, the similarities and differences of these two books written during a period of social turmoil can be seen in the themes of innocence, fighting prejudice, and gender discrimination. These pieces of literature provided a much needed example for the community of the mid twentieth century of how life really was. They opened the eyes of many people through touching sensitive topics like racism and equality for all. Without these pieces of literature and the themes found within, the transition to equality may have taken a lot longer.
Both stories show the characters inequality with their lives as women bound to a society that discriminates women. The two stories were composed in different time frames of the women’s rights movement; it reveals to the readers, that society was not quite there in the fair treatment towards the mothers, daughters, and wives of United States in either era. Inequality is the antagonist that both authors created for the characters. Those experiences might have helped that change in mankind to carve a path for true equality among men and women.
doolittle came to see Liza he wanted to bring her back, but Henry thought otherwise "you took the money for the girl; and you have no right to take her as well." (117). At the point when Higgins lands at his mother's, the place Eliza has fled after the ball, to attempt to take her back to Wimpole Street, she asks, "What am I to return for?" Higgins reacts, "For entertainment purposes." She reacts, "And you can toss me out tomorrow in the event that I don't do all that you need me to?"
Higgins, a teacher of proprietary manners, lacks those very manners which others pay to learn from him. Ironically, Higgins believes that he is the greatest teacher of manners. He announces that in “three months [he] could pass [Eliza] off as a duchess.” Higgins thinks that he can take any lower class girl and pass her off as a duchess. He truly believes that he is capable of transforming Eliza. Once the teaching begins, Higgins shows no respect for others in his life. When he goes to see his mother, she reminds him that “[he] promised not to come on” her days when she is having guests. He ignores this promise to his mother because he believes that his newest experiment is more important than his mother’s insignificant visitors are. This behavior continues throughout the ...
The elements that are illustrated within Pygmalion support the theme of language being the distinctions amid the social classes. The characters prove themselves through their speech to belong to their appropriate classes. The transformations are seen from the young girl still in training alongside her already sophisticated mother, and the impact Higgins’ criticism has had on Eliza. The purpose shown within the play is further supported that being educated will result in a new world of opportunities, while it will never change the true self worth of the individual. Conclusively it establishes that social classes themselves are superficial, and to judge on the content of character will always be more important than imagine on the outer surface.
Bernard Shaw's play, entitled Pygmalion, transcends the nature of drama as a medium to be utilized for sheer entertainment value. Shaw's play powerfully comments on the capacity for the individual to overcome the boundaries established by systems of class and gender. Dominant assumptions and expectations may essentially prevent an individual from becoming socially mobile within a seemingly rigid hierarchical social structure. However, Liza, the protagonist utilizes language as the tool which enables the her to escape the confines of the lower class and to be regarded as a human of a certain degree of worth within society. As Liza transforms from flower girl to duchess, the audience is witness to the many ways that an individual can be dehumanised through the socialisation process. Issues of both class and gender arise from the tensions within the play that surround the interactions between Higgins and Liza and the viewer is able to openly question the values that exist within a society that judges the character of a person on the basis of wealth and education.
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 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.