Lecture 25

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SYNOPSIS1. Plot Type and Analysis: Development

and Structure Initial Situation Conflict Complication Climax Suspense Denouement Conclusion

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Structure and Development

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Pygmalion Plot Analysis

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Pygmalion Plot AnalysisInitial Situation Time- Scene Presentation

04:00 – 06:00 Beginning- Heavy rain

06:00 – 07: 32 Stranger tells about someone taking notes

07:32 – 09:40 Linguists – into / Eliza’ Self-consciousness

09:40 – 12:48 Shaw’s position for English/ Verbal distinction

12:48 – 14:30 Henry Higgins’ s Bet

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Pygmalion Plot AnalysisInitial Situation • Eliza Doolittle is a poor girl with a thick

accent and no prospects. Henry Higgins and Colonel Pickering are gifted linguists. The three have a fateful encounter one night in Covent Garden, during which Higgins reveals his talents as a teacher.

• OK, this is pretty standard. Shaw introduces us to the main characters, lets us know that Eliza has a problem, and that Henry has the skills to fix it.

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Pygmalion Plot AnalysisConflictTime- Scene Presentation

19:10 – 21:20 Dolittle’s appearance

22:20 – 24:05 Father-daughter Relation

24:30 – 25:25 Eliza’s dream and her journey starts

25;25 – 26:15 Linguist in Laboratory

26:15 – 27:58 Eliza’s entrance / Henry’s Denial - attitude

27:58 – 31:20 Eliza’s request for Speech lessons Her plea for his services not FAVORHenry’s analysis of Eliza’s offer

31:20- 31:56 Pickering’s Motivation to Henry to prove his wordsPickering’s taking responsibility of expensesHenry’s approval, excitement and enthusiasm

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Pygmalion Plot AnalysisConflict

• The next day, Pickering and Higgins are working in Higgins's laboratory. Their conversation is interrupted by the entrance of Eliza. When the girl demands to be given lessons, Higgins bets Pickering he can pass her off as a duchess given six months. Pickering agrees.

• Here we have the potential resolution. Higgins is now given the opportunity to fix Eliza's problems…but it's not all sunshine and rainbows. His motives for doing so aren't exactly clear.

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Pygmalion Plot AnalysisComplicationTime- Scene Presentation

31:50 – 34:48 Henry’s first take on Eliza / Mrs. Pearce Stand for girl “you can’t take any girl as pebble on a beach” / Henry’s attitude and his encounter by Mrs. Pearce and Pickering and Eliza refuses to go on with her intention of taking lessons

34:48 – 37:32 Henry’s bait – chocolate , Pickering’s stand for Eliza and Henry’s conversation with Eliza ‘to let her know the details of the ‘deal’”

37:32 –3 9:54 Eliza’s transformation startsHer cleansing

39:55 – 44: 48 Pickering’s Concern for Eliza, her protection / He enquires Henry about his character when concern is a woman/ Henry’s position “Let a woman in your life…”

50:40 – 52:18 Eliza’s Learning 9

Pygmalion Plot AnalysisComplication• Alfred Doolittle, Eliza's father, shows up and

blackmails Higgins into giving him some money. Eliza is a quick study, but teaching her proper grammar and manners proves difficult. Freddy Eynsford Hill falls head over heels for her anyway. Higgins's mother warns him that he's only hurting Eliza by training her.

• This is where things get, well, complicated. Eliza's father threatens to end the bet before it starts, teaching Eliza proves difficult, a romantic element is introduced, and a warning is issued. And rest assured, that warning isn't there for nothing.

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Pygmalion Plot AnalysisComplicationTime- Scene Presentation

52:18 – 1:00:35 Mr. Dolittle at Henry’s Getting money Meeting ElizaHenry’s suggestion to a professor to take Dolittle as one of the original Moralist of England

1:00:35 – 1:03:34 Eliza’s develops dislike for Henry’s attitude “Just you wait Henry Higgins”

1:03:34 – 1:06: 30 Eliza’s learning of Tongue Twisting Vowels , Haa Sound,

1:06:40 – 1:16:00 Higgins’ as a social being / His passion and Eliza’s transformation and Liza’s first learning 11

Review 1. Plot Type and Analysis: Development

and Structure Initial Situation Conflict Complication Climax Suspense Denouement Conclusion

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