Pygmalion Act II & Act III (Part I): Elizas Education Purposes and Manners Your Works * Give names of reporters reports D 4/11E 5/8F 6/ P- ACT 1P- ACT 3Act 2 training Meeting ?21 Analysis 2 (2 nd too short)2 ?2 reports A 1/10B 2/7C 3/ P-Act 5P- Act 4P-Act 2 Meeting 1* 1 Analysis 22?2 LibriVoxAct 1Act 2Act 3Act 4Act 5 14:5043:4523:0013:5936:00 Upcoming!!! 1) 11/7 Script due (at EngSite) with an explanation of your theme, what youve cut and/or changed 2) Costumesget costumes by 11/19; estimate expenses, too. Each group no more than 2000 dollars. 3) 11/19 (sound lighting) meeting? Act II: Elizas Education 0. Education (1): Higgins as a ScientistEducation (1): 1.Education (2): Purposes-- Who Wants it, why and how?Education (2): Purposes- The Views of Elizas Education 2.Education (3): Mr. Doolittle as a foil, who does not want improvementMr. Doolittle 3.Education (4): Comedy of Manners 1.Pronunciation, Rhetoric and Comic ElementsPronunciation, Rhetoric and Comic Elements 2.Act III: Characters and MannersCharacters and Manners Education Class Discussion Questions -- Act II Group C Stage Direction (Act II) What does the stage description on pp reveal more about Higgins? Do you find him a likeable person? Can you recreate the scene in class (on your ppt)? Group D Theme: Elizas Education What do Mrs. Pearces & Pickerings cautions against Higgins say about themselves and about Higgins? Which do you agree with more? On Act II & III; Post your group responses before class 1. Stage Directions Characters: Higgins vs. the Others i.What does the stage description on pp reveal more about Higgins? Setting Higgins (1) class difference a fireplace, leather-covered easy-chair at the side of the hearth nearest the door, and a coal-scuttle; a clock on the mantelpiece; a stand for newspapers. a telephone and the telephone directory. a grand piano, On the piano is a dessert dish heaped with fruit and sweets, mostly chocolates. Eliza ostrich feathers in orange, sky-blue, and red Setting ( ) (2) a scientists room two tall file cabinets on the writing table a phonograph, a laryngoscope , a row of tiny organ pipes with a bellows , a set of lamp chimneys for singing flames with burners attached to a gas plug in the wall by an india rubber tube, several tuning-forks of different sizes, a life-size image of half a human head, showing in section the vocal organs, a box containing a supply of wax cylinders for the phonograph. On the walls, engravings; mostly Piranesis and mezzotint ( ) portraits. No paintings. (a contrast to Mrs. Higgins) Art works in Higgins Living Room Giovanni Battista Piranesis Etching (source: Wikipedia) mezzotint ( ) portrait Lack of colors and warm human concern Stage Direction Higgins Well-off, a lot of furniture, etchings but not paintings Scientific: a lot of machines in his drawing room. GBSs bias for Higgins? a robust, vital, appetizing sort of man of forty or thereabouts a professional-looking black frock-coat heartily, even violently interested in everything that can be studied as a scientific subject careless about himself and other people, including their feelings. Childish: described as babylike twice; sweets like a very impetuous baby "taking notice" eagerly and loudly; [upon seeing Eliza] baby-like, making an intolerable grievance of it so entirely frank and void of malice that he remains likeable even in his least reasonable moments. 2. Characters in a Tug of War (1): Higgins vs. the Other 3 Characters i. What does Eliza want to achieve? And how about Higgins? Discussion as a tug of war (pp )= H active & winning 1. Higgins not interested 2. Eliza makes a move with money offered 3. Higgins on money 4. Eliza shocked by the idea of paying 60 pounds in tears (But I ain't got sixty pounds.) keeps handkerchief 5. Pickering provides an incentive (31) Higgins gets carried away 6. Eliza shocked and hurt 7. Intervention (1) where to put her by Pearce and Pickering (32) Higgins softens 8. Higgins rhetoric confuses Eliza makes her way to leave (33) 9. H persuasion (1) Higgins stops her, and, knowing that she does not have parents, asks to take her upstairs 10. Intervention (2) (34): Whats to become of her; shes got feelings * H: throw her out Eliza rejecting (1) (35) 11. Higgins persuasion (2) with chocolate, taxi, gold & diamond (35-36) Intervention (3) by Pearce and Pickering (36) [her future] 12. Higgins clarifies the deal (36) Eliza, I wont stay if I dont like taken upstairswont go near the king... Battle of will tug of war (1): MONEY, PASSION WITHOUT A PLAN 1. Higgins not interested 2. Eliza offers money 4. Eliza shocked by the idea of paying 60 pounds in tears wants handkerchief 3. Higgins on money 6. Eliza shocked and hurt 5. Pickering provides an incentive (31) Higgins gets carried away put her in dustbin Battle of will tug of war (1): INTERVENTIONS 7. Intervention (1) by Pearce and Pickering (32) 8. Higgins softens, using rhetoric, which confuses to Eliza about to leave * 10. Intervention (2)(34): P: whats to become of her. She has feelings H: throw her out 9. Higgins stopping her (1) take her upstairs Eliza rejecting and leaving again (35) 11. Higgins persuasion (2) with chocolate, taxi, gold and diamond 12. Intervention (3) (36) future; clear explanation 13. Higgins clarifies the deal: 1) having your head cut off as penalty 2) 7 and 6 pence as award MORE DISCUSSIONS (40-43) Pickering Are you a gentleman? Re: Higgins on women Mrs. Pearce Watch your manners and language -- not swear -- personal cleanliness -- not in dressing gown, not use it as napkin, not eat everything from the same plate, Eliza to be a lady in a flower shop Higgins: Pronunci ation Pickering: sympathetic & courteous, but interested in the experiment Pierce: clean, respectable and aware of the future Theme (1): Education Theme (2): Scientific Ideal vs. Human Caution Pearces and Pickerings Cautions Higgins: elated with the idea and his elocution; -- You can adopt her. -- She can return to the gutter. -- Have some chocolate. -- Does not think E has feelings or understand anything.(35); -- Does not want to think about consequences.(36) -- cannot stand women. Pearce : practical (34) -- where to put her; -- He does not know her family -- Whats to become of her -- Her status in the house -- Youre tempting the girl. Pickering (36, 40) sympathetic but interested in the experiment -- places the bet -- the girl has feelings -- woman not be violated Three Pygmalions (pp ) Higgins Interested in proving his abilities in teaching pronunciation; strict Pickering checks to see if Higgins is a gentleman, comforting Pearce -- corrects Higgins language, dressing and table manners. Act 3 p. 69 pronunciation and cultural taste p. 39. Clean and respectable lady Summary: Their Influences on Eliza Higgins analysis + training + scolding Mrs. Pearce not just a housekeeper, but a mother figure in this house. Higgins: Here I am, a shy, diffident sort of man. Ive never been able to feel really grown-up and tremendous, like other chaps. (43) 1.Bathing and dressing her properly; 2.( ) Asks Higgins to behave himself in language (not to swear), dressing, table manners(to wipe his hands on his dressing gown), etc, in front of Eliza. Pickering: Offers a spiritual support (54-55); like a buffer zone between the two. Teaches her self-respect-- courteous, calls Eliza Ms. Doolittle (29; 36; 53) Class Discussion Questions -- Act II Group E Mr. Doolittle (Act II): Language and Rhetoric What are the rhetorical skills used by Mr. Doolittle? Why are his statements funny? Choose 2 of his ideas and 1 of Higgins and discuss how you agree and/or disagree with them. On Act II & III; Post your group responses before class Mr. Doolittle: Another Way of Life Work + Fun: He drinks, does his job (as a navvy, unskilled laborer or digger, ) only once in a while, and tries to get money out of others. (53) So he is a disgrace to Eliza. His Rhetoric 1) emotional appeal and common moral reasoning 2) practical appeal: straightforward in appealing to H as a man of the world, bargaining 3) self-assertive claims: to take the line of being undeserving poor (48-50) Not Greedy: He will make good use of the 5 pounds, and does not want more. Just one good spree ( ) for myself and the missus, There won't be a penny of it left by Monday: I'll have to go to work same as if I'd never had it. It won't pauperize me 10 pounds will make him prudent like. Doolittles Use of Rhetoric [Review of Bro. Kosss Points]: ingratiating, negotiating, self- asserting, being honest, using parallelism & rhetoric questions pp [being undeserving poor] I'm playing straight with you. I ain't pretending to be deserving. I'm undeserving; and I mean to go on being undeserving. I like it; and that's the truth. Will you take advantage of a man's nature to do him out of the price of his own daughter what he's brought up and fed and clothed by the sweat of his brow until she's growed big enough to be interesting to you two gentlemen? Is five pounds unreasonable? I put it to you; and I leave it to you. HIGGINS [rising, and going over to Pickering] Pickering: if we were to take this man in hand for three months, he could choose between a seat in the Cabinet and a popular pulpit in Wales. PICKERING: What do you say to that, Doolittle? Education (3): Morality vs. Mr. Doolittle Mr. Doolittle a reversal of Victorian morality. His View about Marriage and Family: Does not want to protect his daughter; wants to get money out of her (money for drinking). Feel bound to his woman because they are unmarried Money: happy with 5 pounds His Rhetoric-- Higgins finds his argument irresistible (p.50). How about you? Act II: Pattern Two Parts: two verbal encounter (or fights) showing Eliza vs. Higgins & Higgins vs. Doolittle; Similarities: discussion with Higgins which is similar to a tug of war, Intention: Both Eliza and Doolittle go there desiring something, but almost fail to get it. Contradictions (in action or in words): Eliza wants both to leave and to stay; Doolittle is all talk. Higgins: willful, getting what he wants and paying when he likes to. Major Difference: Eliza wants education, while Doolittle wants only money. Manners Taste Accent Dress, Taxi Lessons Money Class Morality? Marriage ? Pygmalion: underserving poor = more money means higher class and moral status? How about upper class? Eliza accent = higher class; how about money & marriage? Class Mobility vs. Relative Opposition between Middle (+) and Lower Classes (-) Upper ClassLess Money Middle ClassMore Money Lower ClassLess/No Money Education (4): The Comical: The Play as a Comedy of Manners The comical: Manners or lack of it shown to an absurd degree to reveal human foibles. Lack of it: Elizas responses and her Ah-ooo. Higgins exaggerated manners (42): his dialogue with Mrs. Pearce (Only this morning, sir, you applied it [dirty word] to your boots, to the butter, and to the brown bread); his treatment of Eliza. The use rhetoric: e.g. pp Mr. Doolittles: Governor. Well, what's a five pound note to you? And what's Eliza to me? Higgins Proverbs Woman (41)-- I find that the moment I let a woman make friends with me, she becomes jealous, exacting, suspicious, and a damned nuisance. I find that the moment I let myself make friends with a woman, I become selfish and tyrannical. Women upset everything. When you let them into your life, you find that the woman is driving at one thing and youre driving at another. (re. Elizas education) Ambition in Life (31) -- What is life but a series of inspired follies? The difficulty is to find them to do. Never lose a chance: it doesnt come every day. I shall make a duchess of this draggle-tailed guttersnipe. Higgins Proverbs do any of us understand what we are doing? If we did, would we ever do it? 42-- Take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves is as true of personal habits as of money. ( ; , ; , ) "we're all savages" speech. Group A: Stage Direction (Act III) What does it reveal about Mrs. Higgins. Again, try to recreate the setting. Group F (Act III) : How does Mrs. Higgins look at Higgins experiment differently from Higgins and Pickering? Group B: Education and Manners: What has she achieved in the first part of Act 3 (the at-home party), and where does she fall short? Any interesting plot reversals? (67; 68-70) How do they shed light on Victorian manners? Class Discussion Questions -- Act III On Act II & III; Post your group responses before class 1. Characters and Manners i. Mrs. Higgins vs. Higgins (Stage directions and Dialogue) (Group A) Mr. Higgins vs Mrs. Higgins Rooms Instruments; file cabinet a life-size image of Human head with vocal cord; Portraits & engravings Morris wallpaper chintz ( ) window curtains Giovanni Battista Piranesi Mrs. Higgins Room: Painting and Nature Burne Jones paintings Cecil Lawson landscape painting, three windows looking on the river; A balcony with flowers in pots Mrs. Higgins Room: Well-Designed Furniture Chippendale chair--chair made by or in the style of Thomas Chippendale (1718?-79), English cabinetmark and influenced to some extent by Louis XV. Elizabethan (Indigo Jones) chair There is a Chippendale chair further back in the room between her and the window nearest her side. At the other side of the room, further forward, is an Elizabethan chair roughly carved in the taste of Inigo Jones. Mrs. Higgins Wise and with more sense of style, or taste brought up on Morris and Burne Jones; once rebellious There is a portrait of Mrs. Higgins as she was when she defied fashion in her youth in one of the beautiful Rossettian costumes which, when caricatured by people who did not understand, led to the absurdities of popular estheticism in the eighteen-seventies. (Ref)(Ref) Cares about social occasion such as at- home tea party and its proper manners Mrs. Higgins blue and white Arts and Crafts garden Room Image source: Higgins about His Mother Emotionally attached & obedient to his mother. (58) His idea of a loveable woman: something as like you as possible; young women all idiots MRS. HIGGINS. Do you know what you would do if you really loved me, Henry? HIGGINS. Oh bother! What? Marry, I suppose? MRS. HIGGINS. No. Stop fidgeting and take your hands out of your pockets. [With a gesture of despair, he obeys and sits down again]. Thats a good boy. Now tell me about the girl. Higgins: Manners His rudeness: pp to Mrs. Eynsford Hill; I havent the ghost of a notion where; but Ive heard your voice. [Drearily] It doesnt matter. Youd better sit down. (59) To Pickering -- [over his shoulder] We were interrupted: damn it! (60) To Freddie -- [looking at him much as if he were a pickpocket] (61) Curses & coarse movements (63) HIGGINS [suddenly] By George, yes: it all comes back to me! [They stare at him.] Covent Garden! [Lamentably] What a damned thing! MRS HIGGINS Henry, please! [He is about to sit on the edge of the table.] Don't sit on my writing-table: You'll break it. HIGGINS [sulkily] Sorry. [He goes to the divan, stumbling into the fender and over the fire-irons on his way; extricating himself with muttered imprecations; and finishing his disastrous journey by throwing himself so impatiently on the divan that he almost breaks it. Mrs. Higgins looks at him, but controls herself and says nothing.] Higgins: His Frankness (61) What one really thinks--not decent ; HIGGINS What they think they ought to think is bad enough, Lord knows; but what they really think would break up the whole show. Do you suppose it would be really agreeable if I were to come out now with what I really think? MISS EYNSFORD HILL [gaily] Is it so very cynical? HIGGINS. Cynical! Who the dickens said it was cynical? I mean it wouldn't be decent. MRS EYNSFORD HILL [seriously] Oh! I'm sure you don't mean that, Mr. Higgins. We not civilized; We can be pretentious in small talks, while not really knowing the subjects (e.g. of poetry, science, medicine, etc.) we're all savages, more or less. We're supposed to be civilized and culturedto know all about poetry and philosophy and art and science, and so on; but how many of us know even the meanings of these names? 1. Characters and Manners ii. Elizas Performances & The Eynsford Hills & Mrs. Higgins Responses (Group F & B) Elizas Performances Higgins work: I've taught her to speak properly; and she has strict orders as to her behavior. She's to keep to two subjects: the weather and everybody's health (58) -- how she pronounces, but not what she pronounces Mrs. Higgins comments (pp ) (outsides vs. insides) Eliza: (62-65) Weather: like weather forecast Aunt sb did her in --Higgins: new small talk Fatherchronically drunk; Wives getting their husbands drunk to make them fit to live with. [F] Ha! ha! how awfully funny! [ Mrs. E puzzled] Done her in? Mrs. E How dreadful for you! [F] sniggering New Small Talk & Social Manners: Freddy, Mrs. Eynsford Hill & Clara (Stage Direction) Freddy: [shaking hands with Mrs. Higgins] Ahdedo? --forced and unnatural pronunciation Mrs. Eynsford Hill: The mother is well bred, quiet, and has the habitual anxiety of straitened means.(59) Clara: The daughter has acquired a gay air of being very much at home in society: the bravado of genteel poverty. Freddy, Mrs. Eynsford Hill & Clara: Their Responses to NST Freddy: infatuated, not comprehending. (63) Clara: needs to be on the marriage market eager to please others and follow the trends To her mother: [if you are not used to the small talk,] People will think we never go anywhere or see anybody if you are so old-fashioned. ' Nobody means anything by it. It's so quaint, and gives such a smart emphasis to things that are not in themselves very witty. I find the new small talk delightful and quite innocent' (66) Rejects early Victorian prudery (67) Mrs. Eynsford Hill: not used to [Claras] talking about men as rotters, and calling everything filthy and beastly (65); cannot take Elizas. Mrs. Higgins Responses [Before the conversation] no way to separate the social small talk with the insides A problem came in with her. (70) not her father But whats to be done with her afterwards HIGGINS She can go her own way, with all the advantages I have given her. MRS HIGGINS The advantages of that poor woman [Clara] +who was here just now! The manners and habits that disqualify a fine lady from earning her own living without giving her a fine lady's income! Is that what you mean? Every Group A. Scene and Theme 1)What is the theme and main message of your work, as opposed to the original one? (They can be the same.) 2)Which scenes do you focus on in your text? What do you omit? Does this cutting affect your presentation of the theme? 3)How much dialogue? Among whom? Are you going to fill out the gaps in the original texts? B. Your Setting location and main props -- DRAWING C. Line Reading & Recording Pygmalion Finalized Script Mr. Higgins Mrs. Higgins Style The Eynsford Hills Eliza Manners 10: 30 10:45 Break 10:45 11:00 Group ! 3. Review: Education & the Characters Eliza, Higgins, Pickering and Mrs. Pearce: What do they each want or care about? What are the threes influences on Eliza? Higgins and Elizas Desires Higgins: 1) described as a baby twice 2) bad-tempered & impetuous, but likable (?) 3) Only scientific interest in humans (as accent 27); not interested in Eliza before 1) Elizas offer 2) Pickerings bet. 4) Takes up the challenge (to turn a draggletailed guttersnipe [ ( ) ] into a lady) without consideration of human feelings. Eliza: 1.Wants to sell flowers in a flower shop 2.Willing to spend 2/5 of her income to do so. 3.Cannot fully comprehend all of whats been discussed. 4.(35) Refuses to be bullied; insists on her right. 5.(37) repeatedly asserts herself with the limited language she has or learns on the spot (e.g. good girl has feelings). Elizas Education From Rags to Riches-- The First Few Things she learns: 1.Material base: the advantage of bathing; wearing night gown; 2.Self-Image: the Mirror needs to get used to it (? Self-image, vanity, sexual identity) 3.Self-Respect: being called Miss Doolittle (53) it sounded so genteel. 4.something to shew (snobbery) Take a taxi to put the girls in their place a bit. I wouldnt speak to them, you know. the fashionable (53) 5. Pronunciation: (54) Overview: Emerging General Issues 1.Class differences and social mobility How are class differences marked? And changed? Money, dresses, boots, whistle sound, taxi.Money Language & Accent Place (Lisson Grove, Wimpole Street, Earlscourt, etc.); rooms Jobs (flower girl, dustman) and activities (drinking, theatre- going, at-home day, parties) Ways of survival and sense of Morality 2.a womans or ladys positions: e.g. Eliza, Clara, Mrs. Higgins, Mrs. Pearce and Mrs Eynsford Hill 3.Transformation & Class Mobility: Eliza, Mr. Doolittle, The Eynsford Hills. Appearance: manners Reality Overview: Emerging General Issues 4. The play as a comedy of manners 5. The play as a romance vs. gender relations How does Shaw re-define romance? Changes of Elizas relations with Higgins "that thing," "insect" "squashed cabbage leave" draggle-tailed guttersnipe Plot Development Acts III V: a series of transformation and reversals III Eliza on the rise (princess)the beginning of Claras education IV No longer an artificial duchess, Eliza leaves Wimpole, changing to walking dress. V Elizas argument with Higgins on equal position another tug of war Mr. Doolittles transformation Se- quel Eliza & Higgins, & Freddie; Eliza & Higgins. Claras changes Next Time 1.Read Act III (pp ) + Act V 2.Answer 1 question online and in class 3.the script finalwith all the lines ready and stage directionsideas about stage prop (Act II & III, split stage?) subtitles? 4.11/19 noon -- theatre meeting with the backstage crew (learning sound & lighting) 11/12 Class Discussion Questions 1.Characters & Manners: Characters & Manners: Group E Elizas Education: What has she achieved respectively in the two parts of Act 3, and where does she fall short? Group F Any interesting plot reversals? (67; ; 75) Group A What do they shed light on Victorian manners? Group B The original theatrical version does not show the climatic scene of the Embassys party. Do you know why? On Act III; Post your group responses before class 1.Group C: Scientific Creation vs. Human Concern i. Higgins, Pickering & Eliza : Why is Eliza angry at the beginning of Act IV? Why are Higgins or Pickering ignorant about it? What are the clues to their lack of comprehension? ii. Higgins & Eliza What do you think about the fight between the two? What does Eliza want and can Higgins come to terms with her? What do they each care about? Where are the turning points in their dialogue? Are there signs of affection? 2.Group D What about Freddy? Is he Elizas Way Out? Arent their meeting and kisses at night dangerous or scandalous? 11/12 Class Discussion Questions On Act IV; Post your group responses before class 11/12 Class Discussion Questions for all 1.Now with the plot finalized, can you describe the theme of your performance? How does the stage setting, or any of the props, help you convey the theme? 2.Any problems with the costumesbring photos to class. 3.Character Performance: one or two characters memorize a few lines to perform in class Mini Play Contest: Tentative Schedule PlayCastCrew 10/22 General IntrodJob Division startsGroup Leaders 10/29 Act I and Act II. (pp ) Production Plan & Casting Text Chosen 11/5 Act II & III (pp )Line reading Script Ready (11/6 the latest) 11/12 Act III-IV (pp Act V)Rehearsal w/ scriptScript Confirmed 11/19 Act V and PostscriptRehearsal w/ script Technical Meeting? Costume budget deadline 11/26 Mini Play Preparation Poetry I: Lyric and Tone Rehearsal w/out script Set and Prop Costumes 12/3 Poetry II: Diction & Figurative Language1 blocking?Subtitles produced 12/10 Mini Play Contest Rehearsal (1): Advisor Hegel Tsai Dress Rehearsal 12/16 (1:00-3:30) 12/17 Performance Day Performance Record 11/5 A(10, 1)B(2, 7)C(3, 9)D(4, 11)E(5, 8)F(6, 12) 1.Analysis 2- Reading 3. Theme & Plot 4. Major Character 5. Character 6. Team Work Performances