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8 Unit 4 Pygmalion Reading PYGMALION MAIN CHARACTERS Eliza Doolittle E a poor flower girl who is ambition to improve herself Professor Higgins H an expert in phonetics convince that the quality of a person s English decides his her position in society Colonel Pickering CP an officer in the army and later a friend of Higgins who sets him a task Act One FATEFUL MEETINGS 11 15 pm in London England in 1914 outside a theatre It is pouring with rain and cab whistles are blowing all directions A man is hiding from the rain listen to people s language and watching their react While watching he makes notes Nearby a flower girl wearing dark garments and a wool scarf is also sheltering from the rain A gentleman G passes and hesitates for a moment E Come over ere cap in and buy me flowers off a poor girl G I m sorry I haven t any change E I can giv ou change cap in G surprised For a pound I m afraid I ve got nothing less E hopefully Oah Oh do buy a flower off me Captain Take this for three pence holds up some dead flowers G uncomfortably Now don t be trouble there s a good girl looks in his wallet and sounds more friendly But wait here s some small change Will that be any use to you It s raining heavy now isn t it leaves E disappointed at the outcome but thinking it is better than nothing Thank you sir sees a man taking notes and feels worried Hey I ain t done nothing wrong by speaking to that gentleman I ve a right sell flowers I have I ain t no thief I m an honest girl I am begins to cry H kindly There There Who s hurting you you silly girl What do you take me gives her a handkerchief E I think maybe you was a policeman disguise H Do I look like a policeman E still worried Then why did ou take down my words for How do I know whether ou took me down right ou just show me ou ve wrote about me H Here you are hands over the paper covered in writing E What s that That ain t proper writing I can t read that pushes it back at him H I can reads imitating Eliza Come over ere cap in and buy me flowers off a poor girl in his own voice There you are and you were born in Lisson Grove if I m not mistake E looking confused What if I was What s it to you CP has been watching the girl and now speaks to Higgins That s quite brilliant How did you do that may I ask H Simply phonetics studied and classified from people s own speech That s my profession and also my hobby You can place a man by just a few remarks I can place any speak conversation within six miles and even within two streets in London sometimes CP Let me congratulate you But is there an income make in that H Yes indeed Quite a good one This is the age of the newly rich People begin their working life in a poor neighbor of London with 80 pounds a year and end in a rich one with 100 thousand But they betray themselves every time they open their mouths Now once teach by me she d become an upper class lady CP Is that so Extraordinary H rudely Look at this girl with her terrible English the English that will condemn her to the gutter to the end of her days But sir proudly once educated to speak properly that girl could pass her off in three months as a duchess at ambassador s garden party Perhaps I could even find her a place as a lady s maid or a shop assistant requires better English E What s that you say A shop assistant Now that s sommat I want that is H ignores her Can you believe that CP Of course I study many Indian dialects myself and H Do you indeed Do you know Colonel Pickering CP Indeed I do that is me Who are you H I m Henry Higgins and I was going to India to meet you CP And I came to England to make you acquaintance E What about me How ll you help me H Oh take that carelessly throws a handful of money into her basket We must have a celebration my dear man leave together E looking at the collected money in amazement Well I never A whole pound A fortune That ll help me indeed it will Tomorrow I ll find you Henry Higgins Just you wait and see All that talk of imitates him authentic English in her own voice I ll see you can get that for me goes out Act Two Scene 1 MAKING THE BET It is 11am in Henry Higgins house the next day Henry Higgins and Colonel Pickering are sitting deep conversation H Do you want to hear any more sounds CP No thank you I rather fancied myself because I can pronounce twenty four distinct vowel sounds but your one hundred and thirty beat me I can t distinguish most of them H laughing Well that comes with practice There is a knock and Mrs Pearce MP the housekeeper comes in with cookies a teapot some cream and two cups MP hesitating A young girl is asking to see you H A young girl What does she want MP Well she s quite a common kind of girl with dirty nails I thought perhaps you want her to talk into your machines H Why Has she got an interesting accent We ll see Show her Mrs Pearce MP only half resigned to it Very well sir goes downstairs H This is a bit of luck I ll show you how I make records on wax disks MP returning This is the young girl sir Eliza comes into the room shyly following Mrs Pearce She is dirty and wear a shabby dress She curtsies to the two men H disappointed Why I ve got this girl in my records She s the one we saw the other day She s no use at all Take her away CP gently to Eliza What do you want young lady E upset I wanna be a lady in a flower shop stead o selling flowers in the street But they won t take me less I speak better here I am ready to pay him I m not asking for any favours and he treats me like dirt H How much E happier Now yer talking A lady friend of me gets French lessons for two shillings an hour from a real Frenchman You wouldn t have the face to ask me for the same for teaching me as yer would for French So I won t give yer more than a shilling H ignoring Eliza and speaking to Pickering If you think of how much money this girl has why it s the best offer I ve had to Eliza But if I teach you I ll be bad than a father CP I say Higgins Do you remember you said last night I ll say you re the greatest teacher alive if you can pass her off as a lady I ll be the referee for this little bet and pay the lessons too E gratefully Oh yer real good yer are Thank you Colonel H Oh she is so deliciously low compromises OK I ll teach you to Mrs Pearce But she ll need clean first Take her away Mrs Pearce Wash her and burn her horrible clothes We ll buy her new ones What s your name girl E I m Eliza Doolittle and I m clean My clothes went to the laundry I washed last week MP Well Mr Higgins has a bathtub of his own and he has a bath every morning If these two gentlemen teach you you ll have to do the same They won t like the smell of you otherwise E sobbing I can t I dursn t It ain t natural and it d kill me I ve never had a bath in my life not o