pygmalion my fair lady
The play Pygmalion and My Fair Lady, the musical, are the same story. The only major difference between the two, is that My Fair Lady has songs added to the dialogue. I believe the musical version is more enjoyable because the music adds more feeling to the story. The opening scene is after an opera. The higher class people spill out into the streets. It is here that Eliza is selling her flowers. Eliza is a poor girl with a very thick accent. She is a respectable girl, which she insist throughout the movie, saying to Mr. Higgins, "I'm a good girl". She's had a hard life, her father being a drunk and therefore she and her mother had no money. It is hard for her to get a job because of her accent, so she resorts to selling flowers. She is always wishing for more out of life. Professor Higgins hears her talking and starts taking notes of her speech. Eliza assumes that she is in trouble and causes a commotion, professing that she did nothing wrong.
Professor Higgins won the bet. After they get home, Colonel Pickering and Higgins congratulate each other without a single thank you to Eliza. Eliza becomes furious and leaves the house to meet Freddy outside. She goes back to where she used to live, but nobody recognized her, so she went to Higgins' Colonel Pickering came from England to meet Mr. Higgins and observed I think that language is a very important part of our society, whether it should be or not, is another question. Some people seem to judge one's first appearance and they don't look past what they see. Mr. Higgins never saw Eliza as more than a flower girl, even though she had been a lady all along. Language is a powerful thing, it can make you a duchess or a flower girl, a bum or a high society gentleman...or at least appear to be. mother's house. Higgins went to his mother's to find Eliza there with his mother. Eliza says that she can survive without Higgins and at that moment, he realizes that she has t
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