George Bernard Shaw uses many different approaches throughout his many works. In Pygmalion and Androcles and the Lion, he uses two very different paths ending in two different results. For example, in Androcles and the Lion, he show how doing a good deed will result in a reward, but in Pygmalion, someone does a good deed for the main character, and she feels ruined because of it. The motivation for the good deed, the deed itself, and the outcome of the deed are all three different in both of the works. In Pygmalion, the two professors decided to help Eliza Doolittle, only because Professor Pickering made a bet with Professor Higgins that he would be able to change Liza into a lady by the time the ambassador’s garden party came around. Pickering …show more content…
Liza goes through months of lessons and finally reaches the ambassador’s garden party. By the end of the event, those who attended the party are convinced that she is of royalty. Even the hostess says, “She must be a princess at least.” Liza even realizes that people are beginning to act weird around her. Liza says, “The people all stare so at me. An old lady has just told me that I speak exactly like Queen Victoria.” Even though she successfully learned to speak properly, she still was not happy in the end. She begins to say things like, “I wish I was dead,” “I’m too ignorant,” and “What am I fit for? What have you left me fit more? Where am I to go? What am I to do? What’s to become of me?” Even though someone did a good deed for her, she did not appreciate like most people would have. In Androcles and the Lion, after Androcles helped the lion, the lion decided to repay Androcles in his time of need. When Androcles is in the Coliseum awaiting his death, the lion that was supposed to kill Androcles and the other Christians turns out to be the lion that Androcles saved earlier in the play. The lion shows his gratitude by killing those who were trying to kill Androcles. The lion is finally let out of his cage to kill Androcles and the other …show more content…
In Pygmalion, the only reason the two professors helped Liza out was to get something out of it themselves. The professors decided to help Liza out with her grammar and becoming more like a lady. In the end though, Liza was not happy. In Androcles and the Lion, Androcles genuinely wanted to help the lion. He helped the lion get a thorn out of his foot. In return, the lion helped Androcles from being killed along with others. In conclusion, when you genuinely want to help someone, you may have that good luck returned to you, but if you do something nice for someone just to get something in return, you might not be as
Higgins only considers Eliza as his academic achievement not a woman herself. He transforms Eliza into a completely different person and eventually no one realize Eliza. Eliza never wanted this transition but the ultimate desire that Eliza wants is to be an independent woman.
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...
Helping someone during a difficult time could make them happier. Helping someone during and inconvenience could make someone happier. It could also change how they
An example is when in the beginning of the book, Gandalf approaches Bilbo. Bilbo appreciates Gandalf, his fireworks, adventures, and stories causing Gandalf to respect Bilbo in return. This is an important event because the prophetic character in the book that helps Bilbo along the adventure is Gandalf. Earning Gandalf’s respect makes fate increase Bilbo’s value as a person and the amount of support that he has. Bilbo appreciating the elves, which are an allusion to angels, is another example. Offered in exchange is the appreciation of Bilbo from the elves in the form of knowledge. Elrond informs the party of the moon-letters hidden on the map. This happening is significant because it is the information to get into Smaug’s refuge, where all the treasure is stowed. Furthermore, fate repays Bilbo’s love of the elves once more when Bilbo receives the dream, which discloses the crack in the cave, from which the goblins would soon ambush them. The third example of Bilbo displaying appreciation of goodness is he appreciates the kindness of Beorn. Beorn is an allusion to Jesus in this book so it is obvious why Beorn would be so kind but gaining the party’s gratitude increases Beorn’s kindness even more. Providing Bilbo and the dwarves with provisions and advice to get through the forest is just one example. Fighting along with the armies in the Battle is another. Appreciating Beorn made him more willing to
There are many distinctions between Pygmalion and My Fair Lady, which helps the play deliver Shaw’s message, which is not to intrude in other social classes, one is the alteration of the ending in the movie. In Pygmalion, the play ends with Eliza leaving with Freddy, but in My Fair Lady, the movie ends with Eliza returning to Higgins. Although this revision may seem miniscule, they drastically altered how Shaw’s messa...
One time at the most grandiose zoo in the world seven lions, five elephants, twelve zebras, and eight-teen rattlesnakes escaped during the night. No worker knew how it was possible that they escaped because every cage, door, gate, and exhibit is locked and sealed. So, the workers went on a mission to figure out how the animals could have possibly escaped. First they went to the lions cage. Only one lion, dead, was left. The workers were shocked , but they were even more appalled to see that the window looking into the cage had been broken. There was a trail of peanut shells left behind leading all the way back to the elephant enclosure. When the workers arrived at the cage they discovered holes in the grass, only small enough for a snake
After Eliza passes off as a women of high class it seems that Higgins falls more in love with Eliza. Eliza wonders what will happen to her since she has won the bet for Higgins. Higgins says some harsh things to Eliza which causes her to run away with a boy by the name of Freddy a young man that was introduced in the beginning of the play. At the end of Pygmalion Eliza and Freddy were engaged.
How do you think a “poor flower girl’s” internal thoughts would be? Do you think they would change based on her appearance and her associates? Who is Eliza? Eliza Doolittle is a character in the play Pygmalion written by George Bernard Shaw , who played as a young adult was poor and didn’t keep up with herself. She was a flower girl who wasn’t well respected. Eliza changes throughout the book because in Act I, she was dingy and didn’t feel clean or look clean. Her speech was very bad. She got help from a man named Henry Higgins and his mother Mrs.Higgins. But now, in Act V, she is highly dresses catching others’ eyes when she’d walk in the room. She respects herself more than she did in the past. However, Eliza Doolittle’s thoughts has changed
Pickering, shown as gentle and courteous, he is immediately touched by Eliza’s vulgarity and innocence by offering to pay for her lessons himself. Even Eliza appreciates Pickering, accrediting his treatment as a catalyst. "Your calling me Miss Doolittle that day when I first came to Wimpole Street," claims Eliza, "That was the beginning of self-respect for me" (79). Contrasting from Pickering, Higgins claims he has "created this thing out of squashed cabbage leaves of Covent Garden" in reference to Eliza (78). Pickering distinctly treats a lowly flower girl, Eliza Doolittle, the in the same fashion as he would treat a lady. He, in fact, eliminates the class distinction through treatment that does not take such distinctions into account. Higgins treats Eliza just as rudely and inconsiderately as he treats every other character in the play, including his mother and Mrs. Pearce. Eliza metamorphoses not only into the "duchess" Higgins promises, or the shop girl Eliza wants, but also rather into a self-reliant professional woman. Eliza originates as the "incarnate insult to the English language," according to Higgins, yet her personal evolution of character is dramatically shown by Shaw as a theme of favoritism
People are always in the pursuit of erasing their flaws and becoming what society would say is "perfect." In the play Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw the main character Eliza Doolittle was not content with her life and her lamentable speech and manners. In order to become what she considered "perfect" Eliza relied on Higgins to change her into a proper and sophisticated woman. Higgins pounded lessons of proper speech and how to conduct one 's self with eloquence into Eliza 's head minute after minute and day after day. Although Eliza was being transformed externally, as she continued to grow from her lessons, she also began to transform internally and realize that she deserved respect, whether she was a kerbstone flower girl or a duchess.
Through the years, countless film directors have adapted and recreated various novels and plays to make them ideal for the big-screen. In many cases, directors strive to keep their screenplay adaptations true to the original literature; however, viewers often find contrasts in certain areas of the film. George Bernard Shaw, author of the play Pygmalion, who had passed away prior to the production of My Fair Lady in 1964, therefore, he could not assist in the transition from play to musical. For this reason, director George Cukor has attempted to retain some similarities and also incorporate a few changes of his own. Although readers can discover numerous similarities between My Fair Lady and Pygmalion in certain aspects such as character interaction and the portrayal of social status, one can also detect several contradictions in the two plots, especially during the conclusion.
...esult, the more directly one sees their personal efforts impact someone else, the more happiness one can gain from the experience of giving. Sometimes generosity requires pushing past a feeling of reluctance because people all instinctively want to keep good things for themselves, but once one is over this feeling, they will feel satisfaction in knowing that they have made a difference in someone else’s life. However, if one lives without generosity but is not selfish, they can still have pleasure from other virtues.
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 most 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. To understand the reasons Eliza is able to change and be changed into an almost Cinderella like character. With Eliza going from and growing and changing through the hardship she faces. In the play Eliza begins with no confidence and works towards having a way to reach trough from learning during her life experiences. Learning through the other characters Eliza meets through out the play. Eliza grows stronger and shows how she is able to change her ways one can understand how she is able to change and makes these changes by seeing her through poverty, how she is interacting with the other characters in the play, and through the things she learns from the options that are provided to her. Eliza’s beginning education skills of learning to speak clearly through learning diction, etiquette, and looking proper for society. In addition, from how Eliza feels rich when she has money from the broken flowers and when she is able to be riding in the taxi, her ideas showing her strong will her insistence on marrying Freddy. Both Eliza and Cinderella grow up in poverty, have a stepmother figure, have a fairy godmother figure, arrive at the ball, show confidence, and married. By comparing and contrasting Eliza to Cinderella, we can better understand why and how Eliza changes.
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 ...
In "Pygmalion", we also find the aspect of natural selection. Yet Higgins succeeds in his experiment, and consequently, Charles Darwin's theory seems to be defeated. Eliza has been made a lady, regardless of her origins. During that time, the belief prevailed that only a man can turn a woman into a lady. This is illustrated in Eliza's helplessness and in the way Higgins treats her.