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Pygmalion Act V the Postscript

• Two Kinds of Transformation
• And More

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Outline

• Act V
• Two Transformations
• Creator/Creature vs. Self-Made Woman
• Elizas Relapses Class Issues
• Higgins and Elizas Battle of Will
• Postscript Conclusion
• Romance, Elizas decision Higgins
• Consequences Elizas and Freddys marriage and
  families, their residence and livelihood, their
  education.
• Clara
• Summary

Next Week
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Housekeeping First

• 1) 11/19 1230-130 technical meeting Stage
  Managers, costumes/cosmetics, Props, Lighting and
  Sound crews to go get the training or be familiar
  with the place.
• 2) Cast
• 3) 12/10 (Thurs) 900 1200/1230. Hegel (all
  but costumes)
• 4) 12/16 (Wed) 100 - 330 dress rehearsal
  (sandwiches prepared)
• 5) 12/17 (Thurs) 800 - 1230 (the theatre will
  be open for you at 800)(dumplings and
  potstickers as lunch)

Group B Pygmalion Act 4
Freddy ?
Group A Pygmalion Act 5 Elizas Choice
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Cast Crew

• Be quiet, walk and speak softly unless it is your
  time to perform.
• Handle the props carefully fine will be imposed
  should they be damaged
• 12/17 -- One person at least from each small
  group to help clean the place

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ACT V-1 TWO KINDS OF TRANSFORMATION
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11/19 Class Discussion Questions
On Act V Postscript Post your group responses
before class

• Group A . Mr. Doolittle (pp. 89-93) --what do
  you think about his transformation? Is it funny?
  Ironical? What does it say about Mr. Higgins
  and the issue of morality in Victorian society?
• -- And about Mr. Doolittle? Do you agree with
  him that taking the money and being intimidated
  by middle-class morality is the only choice he
  has?
• 2) How is he a contrast to Eliza? (re. money,
  class status and marriage)
• Group B Elizas transformation In what ways do
  Higgins, Mrs. Pearce, Pickering and Mrs. Higgins
  help Eliza get a better life?
• What does she achieve by herself?

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11/19 Class Discussion Questions
On Act V Postscript Post your group responses
before class

• Group C. The difference between a lady and a
  flower girl is not how she behaves, but how's
  she's treated. Do you agree?
• Does Eliza have a relapse (to low-class
  manners) when she sees her father? (99)
• Group D. Battle of Will What do they each
  insist on and see as goals of their lives in Act
  5? How do they change their tactics to win the
  debate?
• Higgins changes Acts IV V show Higgins
  undergoing changes regarding his views of and
  relation to Eliza. Where are the turning points
  and are there traces of his affection for her?

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11/19 Class Discussion Questions
On Act V Postscript Post your group responses
before class

• Group E The Ending -- What do you think about
  the ending of Act 5? Is it possible for Eliza
  and Higgins to get married?
• Compare this ending with the endings
• -- suggested by the Postscript
• -- of the film versions of Pygmalion (1938 and
  1973 BBC version) and My Fair Lady?
• Group F In what ways does the Sequel revise
  Pygmalion as a romance? Or deny that it is a
  romance? -- What are the reasons added here
  against Elizas staying with Higgins as a soul
  mate?
• -- Why  does it also introduce the changes of
  Clara? 

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1. TWO TRANSFORMATIONS

• A. 1) Mr. Doolittle (pp. 89-93) --what do you
  think about his transformation? Is it funny?
  Ironical? What does it say about Mr. Higgins and
  the issue of morality in Victorian society?
• -- And about Mr. Doolittle? Do you agree with
  him that taking the money and being intimidated
  by middle-class morality is the only choice he
  has?
• 2) How is he a contrast to Eliza? (re. money,
  class status and marriage)

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Higgins Role in Mr. Doolittles Changes

1. the most original moralist at present in England
   (a silly joke)? Wannafeller
2. Dustman! Oh no, sir a gentleman.
3. Ruined me. Destroyed my happiness. Tied me up
   and delivered me into the hands of middle class
   morality (91)

you, Enry Iggins(90).
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Mr. Doolittles Changes

• His changes (pp. 89-93) tied to middleclass
  morality and intimidated.
• money regular pension of 3000 a year on the
  condition of giving up to 6 speeches a year for
  the Moral Reform World League. ? to have to
  perform what he preaches
• money? seen as a benefactor of relatives and
  patient of doctors (92)
• Used to "put the touch" on anyone for drinking
  money ? Now everyone (50 relatives) comes to
  him, demanding favors and monetary support.
• Used to be shoved around (or shut of??) by
  doctors and solicitors ? Now the center of their
  attention.
• language 'Ill have to learn to speak middle
  class language from you, instead of speaking
  proper English. Thats where youll come in and
  I daresay thats what you done it for.'
• marriage Has to get married. (100)

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Mr. Doolittles Changes (2) Related Issues

• A. Creator Henry Higgins is not careful about
  the changes he may bring to others
• B. Mr. Doolittles Education? Not really.
• 1. No choice given the choice between the
  Skilly of the workhouse and the Char Bydis of the
  middle class (Scylla and Charybdis an Italian
  rock and a whirlpool nearby) Money is still
  attractive for him as an undeserving poor,
  since going to the workhouse (???????) is the
  only alternative.
• 2. Money still selfish
• Creates a sense of burden, too. (expected to be
  respectable and to support others.)
• Cares about Eliza only in terms of middle class
  morality(95) does not want to support her.
• C. Social Morality superficial, promoted through
  making speeches?

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Mr. Doolittle vs. Elizaboth dis-classed
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Act V-2. Creator/Creature vs. Self-Made Woman

• B.
• In what ways do Higgins, Mrs. Pearce, Pickering
  and Mrs. Higgins help Eliza get a better life?
• What does she achieve by herself?

From Romance to Social Realism Whether as
Pygmalion story or that of self-made woman,
Elizas story cannot be a complete success
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Creators or Helpers?

• Higgins creator who is careless about the other
  consequences of his creatures (Mr. Doolittle
  and Eliza)
• Act IV HIGGINS looking at her in cool
  wonder The creature IS nervous, after all.
• LIZA gives a suffocated scream of fury, and
  instinctively darts her nails at his face!!
• after throwing the ring at the fireplace
  HIGGINS. Hit you! You infamous creature, how dare
  you accuse me of such a thing?
• Act V before Eliza appears Pickering, Let us
  put on our best Sunday manners for this creature
  that we picked out of the mud. (95)
• Higgins I tell you I have created this thing out
  of the squashed cabbage leaves of Covent Garden
  and now she pretends to play the fine lady with
  me. (97)

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Creators or Helpers?

Pickering Yes in her self-respect (courteous manners, preventing sexual exploitation) -- sequel offers financial support No -- gets carried away by experiment and then its success -- not know what to do but calling the police -- suspects E of buying D clothes -- does not understand E asks Eliza back, but on Higgins side
Mrs. Pearce Yes in manners (language, table manners and dressing) ? No -- limited (glad to get help can only say You dont think sir.)
Mrs. Higgins Yes In speaking for Eliza (Act III V) and offering a space for negotiation. (94-96) No --proposing to have her father take care of Eliza the last ambiguous remark I'm afraid youve spoiled that girl, Henry.
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Elizas Self-Transformation

• after the romance miraculous transformation
• Asserting herself (since Act 4 esp. 96-99)
• Fighting back in their battle of wills
• sequel Making a wise choice of the weak
• sequel Continuous self-improvement through
  going to classes
• But sequel
• She still needs financial support
• She is still attracted to Higgins.
• She is limited in receiving education. (122-23)
• (bookkeeping, shorthand Calligraphy, typing,
  economics) ? the London School Kew Gardens ?
  there own way was the best

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C. Class Issues

• The difference between a lady and a flower girl
  is not how she behaves, but how's she's treated.
  Do you agree?
• Does Eliza have a relapse (to low-class
  manners) when she sees her father? (99)

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4-1. The difference between a lady and a flower
girl is not how she behaves, but how's she's
treated.

• Yes and No.
• Yes Ones social identity is relational. We
  cannot insists on a certain identity unless we
  are recognized as such by others, or through some
  rituals.
• No Since social identity is relational, we need
  to produce signs and send out messages expressive
  of this identity.

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Elizas Relapse?

• A. Eliza
• When seeing her father a natural response, which
  shows that one cannot forget ones mother tongue
  completely.
• (p. 108) Enry Iggins used consciously as a
  means of getting even or fighting back. (compared
  with her grammar correction on pp. 105, 106)
• Mr. Doolittle
• The father Enry Iggins (90, 95) -- just a sign
  of anger.

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D. Higgins and Elizas Battle of Will

• D. Battle of Will What do they each insist on
  and see as goals of their lives? How do they
  change their tactics to win the debate?
• Higgins changes Acts IV V show Higgins
  undergoing changes regarding his views of and
  relation to Eliza. Where are the turning points
  and are there traces of his affection for her?
• E. Ending What do you think about the ending of
  Act V? Would you be happy with it as the plays
  ending (without the sequel)?

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First Battle in Act II
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2nd Battle in Act IV
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Their Battle of Wills in Act V
Higgins Eliza
0. (96) As possessive as a god (97) Does not trust Elizas improvement (relapse) 1. real education (97-98) cares about manners, proper language and respect
Asks her to go back. 3. (after the interruption of Doolittle) equality 1 (102) The same manner to everyone 2. terms? usage as a maid (102)
5. Independence/arrogance Can do without anyone. with humility I shall miss you. 4. attention equal treatment(103) Will not be passed over. Wants a sense of importance and respect.
6. equality 2 care for humanity, refutes Elizas plea as commercialism Offers fellowship and to adopt her, but refuses to change. 7. kindness Eliza (104-05) Complains about the trouble he causes, not being noticed. Still wants a little kindness. -- (106) Thinks of Freddy as a solution. Be natural, be friendly.
9 (the life of the gutter vs. the life of a scientist and lady) recognition ad equality 3Amazed at Elizas improvement in the mind. Three old bachelors together. 8. Independence marry Freddy strike back Threatens to assist the Hungarian or to use the knowledge he teaches her.
"By George, Eliza, I said I'd make a woman of
you and I have"
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Summary Higgins and Elizas Differences

• turning points
• Act IV
• 1) After E throws slippers at his face, H gets to
  understand Elizas concern
• 2) H -- angered when Eliza separates her
  possession from his and returns him the ring
• Act V
• 1) H -- nervous upon finding her gone (still sees
  her as something from the mud
• 2) H offers equal manners offers good
  fellowship
• 4) E wants tenderness attention
• 5) E fights back marriage to Freddy her
  livelihood as a phonetics teacher or assistant to
  N.
• Higgins unwilling to marry, to change his (lack
  of) manners or his treatment of Eliza as a
  housekeeper.

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Higgins and Eliza Traces of Their Mutual
Affection

• (IV) never thought of her leaving angered
• Higgins nervousness (in a state) when finding
  Eliza gone.
• To Doolittle Have you found Eliza? (91)
• Gets angry at the thought of Dolittles getting
  her back (93)
• the moment he sees her Get up and come home
  and dont be a fool. (96)

• Elizas
• (103)I know you didknow she could leave, you
  brute. You wanted to get rid of me.
• Her pleas for kindness.(105)
• (109) As she is leaving Mrs. Higgins' house, she
  still offers advice disdainfully to Higgins'
  about his gloves, ties, cheese, and calls to
  remind Mrs. Pearce about the ham.

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Elizas and Higgins ambiguous expressions(1)
the same to all 103-104

• (103) LIZA. I dont care how you treat me. I dont
  mind your swearing at me. I dont mind a black
  eye Ive had one before this. But standing up
  and facing him I wont be passed over.
• HIGGINS Then get out of my way for I won't stop
  for you. You talk about me as if I were a motor
  bus.
• LIZA So you are a motor bus all bounce and go,
  and no consideration for anyone. But I can do
  without you Don't think I can't.
• HIGGINS I know you can. I told you you could.
• LIZA. You wanted to get rid of me.
• HIGGINS Liar
• LIZA. Thank you.
• HIGGINS. You never asked yourself, I suppose,
  whether I could do without you. She sits down
  with dignity.
• LIZA earnestly Don't you try to get round me.
  You'll HAVE to do without me.
• HIGGINS arrogant I can do without anybodyI
  shall miss you, Eliza (103)

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Eliza beating about the bushes, or striving for
equality? (2) fellowship104-106

• HIGGINS Making life means making trouble.
• LIZA I'm no preacher I don't notice things like
  that. I notice that you don't notice me.
• HIGGINS jumping up and walking about
  intolerantly Eliza Youre an idiot. I waste the
  treasures of my Miltonic mind by spreading them
  before you. So you can come back or go to the
  devil Which you please.
• LIZA What am I to come back for?
• HIGGINS bouncing up on his knees on the ottoman
  and leaning over it to her For the fun of it.
  That's why I took you on.
• LIZA with averted face And you may throw me out
  tomorrow if I don't do everything you want me to?
• HIGGINS Yes and you may walk out tomorrow if I
  don't do everything YOU want me to.
• LIZA And live with my stepmother?
• HIGGINS Yes, or sell flowers.
• LIZA Oh! if I only COULD go back to my flower
  basket! ? Freddy
• LIZA much troubled I want a little kindness.
  (106-107)

Equality?
H That's just how I feel.
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Higgins Changes
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Ambiguities in their Relationship (2)

• Higgins theoretical, professional, but
• Cannot live without her shocked whenever E
  mentions separation and marriage does try to get
  her back.
• (103) Recognizes her values I cant turn your
  soul on. Leave me those feelings and you can
  take away the voice and the face. They are not
  you.
• Changes (from seeing her as a guttersnipe to an
  intellectual equal).
• Other signs the ring, his efforts on her and
  spreading his mind before her.
• The last two remarks (109-10)

Pickering! Nonsense she's going to marry Freddy.
Ha ha! Freddy! Freddy!! Ha ha ha ha ha!! ! !! He
roars with laughter as the play ends. ...
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Are there chances for their getting married

• at the end of Act V?
• No, unless
• Higgins is willing to change himself and be
  loving, or
• Eliza is willing to stay unmarried and inferior
  to him.
• See Notes (1)

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Summary

• Elizas Education vs. Mr. Dolittles
  Transformation
• The Themes of Pygmalion vs. Self-Made Woman
• Class Relations Language The use of coarse
  language as relapse or strategy
• (Small talk as a sign of trendiness
• correct English as a sign of foreignness)
• 4. The battle of will between Higgins and Eliza

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Task for All
1. Comment on a Saying (next slide) 2. SM Crew
What did you do last week? -- Write on the
board. 3. Suggestions for the performing group
you observe
Performers Audience Time
Group D Pygmalion Act 1 The Rain that Leads to Everything Group A 1110-1108
Group C Pygmalion Act 2 The Presumptuous Requests Group D 1108-1116
Group F Pygmalion Act 2 Enchanted Group C 1116-1124
Group E Pygmalion Act 3 Social Climbing Trial Group F 1124-1132
Group B Pygmalion Act 4 Money or Dignity? Group E 1132-1140
Group A Pygmalion Act 5 Elizas Choice Group B 1140-1148
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Do you agree? Discuss it in the context of the
play, and as a saying

1. Women 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.
2. Manners Higgins The great secret, Eliza, is
   not having bad manners or good manners or any
   other particular sort of manners, but having the
   same manner for all human souls in short,
   behaving as if you were in Heaven, where there
   are no third-class carriages, and one soul is as
   good as another. (1236)
3. Manners Peoples saying what they think
   they ought to think is bad enough, Lord knows
   but what they really think would break up the
   whole show. . . . We are all savages . . .
   (Act 3)
4. Life What is life but a series of inspired
   follies? (Act 2) rhetorical questions
5. Life If you cant appreciate what youve got,
   youd better get what you can appreciate. (Act 5)
   sententia (????,?? see Notes)
6. Weak vs. Strong Accordingly, it is a truth
   everywhere in evidence that strong people,
   masculine or feminine, not only do not marry
   stronger people, but do not show any preference
   for them in selecting their friends. (Sequel p.
   114)

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Pygmalion

• the Sequel and
• Conclusion

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11/28 Class Discussion Questions

• Group F In what ways does the Sequel revise
  Pygmalion as a romance? Or deny that it is a
  romance? -- What are the reasons added here
  against Elizas staying with Higgins as a soul
  mate?
• -- Why  does it also introduce the changes of
  Clara? 

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The Sequel

• Romance, Elizas decision Higgins
• Consequences Elizas and Freddys marriage and
  families, their residence and livelihood, their
  education.
• Clara
• ? Do you agree with Shaw?

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1-1. Conventions of Romance Denied

• 1. Our imaginations have been enfeebled by their
  dependence on the ready-mades and reach-me-downs
  (made for nobody in particular) of the ragshop in
  which Romance keeps its stock of "happy endings"
  to misfit all stories.
• 2. Elizas transformation Not an uncommon story.
• 3. Does the hero have to marry the heroine? (Do
  the married couple live happily ever after?)
• 4. Eliza and Freddys marriage and their shop.

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1-2. Factors in Elizas Decisionto Leave Higgins

• Elizas Status
• (111) Her decision depends on whether she is
  really free to choose. She is, since she is
  young and pretty.
• Eliza's instinct tells her not to marry Higgins.
  It does not tell her to give him up. What does
  this mean?
• Higgins
• His love of his Mother
• Typical of an imaginative boy with an
  intelligent and graceful mother. (112) Oedipus
  Complex according to Freud
• Leads to a disengagement of his affections, his
  sense of beauty, and his idealism from his
  specifically sexual impulses
• b. His interest in Milton and the Universal
  Alphabet (113)

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1-2. Factors in Elizas Choice of Freddy

• 2. Higgins 113
• her resentment of Higgins's domineering
  superiority,
• her mistrust of his coaxing cleverness in getting
  round her and evading her wrath when he had gone
  too far with his impetuous bullying.
• (113) Eliza and Freddy
• He is a gentleman
• He is weak, thus attracted to Eliza as a strong
  woman.
• (conclusion 115 Will she look forward to a
  lifetime of fetching Higgins's slippers or to a
  lifetime of Freddy fetching hers? Unless
  Freddy is biologically repulsive to her . . .)
  
• Do you agree with Elizas or with Shaws
  reasons?

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Do you want to marry one that is weaker than you,
or stronger? (ref. p. 114)

• When a lion meets another with a louder roar "the
  first lion thinks the last a bore." The man or
  woman who feels strong enough for two, seeks for
  every other quality in a partner than strength.
• weak people want to marry strong people who do
  not frighten them too much and this often leads
  them to make the mistake we describe
  metaphorically as "biting off more than they can
  chew."

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1-2. Factors in Elizas Decision

• Kates personal views
• Agree-- strength not the most important factor
• 1. There is a lot to consider in choosing ones
  spouse. (Besides love, personality, career,
  class, family, pattern of relationship, sexual
  attraction, money, ones age and the choices
  available.)
• 2. Eliza should not stay with one who is
  domineering and refusing to change.
• Disagree
• Does the strong one really want to marry a weak
  one? Or maybe there is attraction of two who are
  congenial to but different from each other.
• Strong vs. Weak as binary opposition Why are
  there just these two choices for Eliza? Couldnt
  she work and wait a bit? (But at that time
  staying single may not be a choice for her.)
• Why is there only description of Elizas secret
  affection for Higgins (124), but not the other
  way around?

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Higgins Secret Affection

• For his mother? (Oedipal attachment to his
  mother)
• For Pickering?
• There is no absolute difference between
  homosexuality and homosociality at the time when
  sex was a taboo and homosexuality, a crime.

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The Other Social Factors Still the Same?

• Class grouping becomes less visible, and the
  boundaries, more fluid
• Language not necessarily a class marker
• Professional Skills should be useful

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2. Consequences

• Money
• Freddy no money, no job.
• Doolittle not willing to offer support.
• Honeymoon would have been penniless without Ps
  support
• Uses the gift of 500 pounds for a long time
  keeps getting supported by the two bachelors
• Residence
• Considers living with the two bachelors, but
  decides against it
• Occupation
• Opens a flower shop with the support of
  Pickering. (117)
• Finally earning money.
• Education (122) (to write, shorthands and
  polytechnic (??) class
• Not really helpful.

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Elizas Relation with Higgins after her marriage

• Still meddles with Wimpole Streets housekeeping
  still nagging
• Still jealous of other women
• Cannot become a professional phonetician (no
  right to meddle with his knowledge).
• her secret wish to be alone on a "desert island"
  with Higgins to seduce him.

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3. Clara

• 1. a pusher who pushes the air in the wrong
  direction, not welcome by the class she wants to
  join? goes to join the artist group
• 2. changed under the influence of Elizas
  transformation, H. G. Wells and the novelist
  Galsworthy to realize the vanity and unimportance
  of her class
• 3. works at a furniture store.

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4. Conclusion

1. Pygmalion Romance
2. Comedy of Manners -- Language and the Other
   Social Markers//Appearance vs. Reality
3. Manners Pronunciation, Handwriting, Dress,
   manners, interest,
4. Marriage and Family
5. Morality Class-bound? Prudery made fun of.
6. Class Differences Social Mobility
7. The ways upper class is presented useless or
   fashionable
8. The background Shaw offers (in Act I and the
   Sequel) of social climbing
9. Elizas, Doolittles and Claras different kinds
   of changes
10. Scientific Creation, Education Human Concern
11. Professionalism (with Ideals) Higgins vs.
    Nepommuck
12. The Roles of Money
13. Lady as Self-Made, or result of others Respect

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Conclusion (2)

• 5. Other Possible Readings (For your reference
  ONLY)
• -- Higgins as one suffering from Aspergers
  syndrome (a kind of autism) (Weintraub)
• --Aspergen has difficulties in social
  interaction, lacks empathy, or has difficulties
  with it, has trouble with social role-taking and
  has unusual responses to the environment similar
  to those in autism. --can achieve success in
  some specialized academic subjects. E.g.
  computer programmers, dentists, scientists.
• -- examples
• of Higgins insensitivity to Elizas feelings Act
  II
• of his rude social behavior, lack of manners
  Acts I III
• of his exclusive interest in languages and
  accents

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Notes Between Scylla and Charybdis

• In a position where avoidance of one danger expose
  s one to another danger.

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Notes Act V Rhetoric (ref. http//www.virtualsa
lt.com/rhetoric.htm)

• Pickering this chap has a certain natural gift
  of rhetoric.  Observe the rhythm of his native
  woodnotes wild.  "I'm willing to tell you I'm
  wanting to tell you I'm waiting to tell you." 
  Sentimental rhetoric! 
• figurative language metaphor, personification
  oxymoron
• others repetition parallelism (Several parts
  of a sentence or several sentences are expressed
  similarly to show that the ideas in the parts or
  sentences are equal in importance.)
• reverse parallelism He labors without
  complaining and without bragging rests. (He
  labors without complaining and rests without
  bragging.)

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Notes Act V Rhetoric (2)

• sententia (quoting a maxim or wise saying to
  apply a general truth to the situation
  concluding or summing foregoing material by
  offering a single, pithy statement of general
  wisdom)  e.g. But, of course, to understand all
  is to forgive all.
• Oxymoron Eliza deliciously low

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Notes (1) Sequel

• H. G. Wells (who influences Clara) a socialist
  and Utopia novelist (work The Time Machine)
• Passionate concern for society led Wells to join
  the socialist Fabian Society in London, but he
  soon quarreled with the society's leaders, among
  them George Bernard Shaw.
• Kew Gardens (p. 122 Combination of London School
  and Kew Gardens) -- the Royal Botanic Gardens
• Nell Gwynne (1650-1687)-- who originally sold
  oranges in the precincts of the Drury Lane
  Theatre
• -- became an actress at the age of only fifteen
• -- became the mistress of King Charles II,
• from 1670 until his death, and
• thus popular to the public.

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Notes (2) Shaws Emotional Life

• Bernard Shaw a Brief Biography
• Parents Shaw (26 July 1856  2 November 1950) 
• -- His father was a failed corn-merchant, with a
  drinking problem and a squint (which Oscar
  Wilde's father, a leading Dublin surgeon, tried
  unsuccessfully to correct) his mother was a
  professional singer, the sole disciple of
  Vandeleur Lee, a voice teacher claiming to have a
  unique and original approach to singing.
• -- When Shaw was just short of his 16th birthday,
  his mother left her husband and son and moved
  with Vandeleur Lee to London, where the two set
  up a household, along with Shaw's older sister
  Lucy (who later became a successful music hall
  singer). Shaw remained in Dublin with his father,
  completing his schooling (which he hated
  passionately), and working as a clerk for an
  estate office (which he hated just as much as
  school).
• -- In 1876 (age 20), Shaw left Dublin and his
  father and moved to London, moving in with his
  mother's menage. There he lived off of his mother
  and sister while pursuing a career in journalism
  and writing. 
• In 1898, after a serious illness, Shaw resigned
  as theatre critic, and moved out of his mother's
  house (where he was still living) to marry
  Charlotte Payne-Townsend, an Irish woman of
  independent means. Their marriage (quite possibly
  sexually unconsummated) lasted until Charlotte's
  death in 1943.

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Notes (3)

• Weintraub, Rodelle. Bernard Shaw's Henry
  Higgins a classic aspergen. English Literature
  in Transition 1880-1920, Fall 2006 v49 i4
  p388-98)
• Shaws ambiguities about love
• Wife Charlotte Payne-Townshend
• Lover Mrs. Pat Mrs. Patrick Campbell  (met Shaw
  in 1897, 2nd marriage in 1914)
• Theater Talk Life and work of playwright George
  Bernard Shaw
• 1000- discussion of Shaws personal life and
  then Pygmalion

1912 -? Her 2nd marriage
1989 - 1943
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Next Week

• Next two weeks memorizing the lines, blocking.
  Recording your lines. (see next slide) group
  leaders 4 more weekly reports (due 11/23, 11/30,
  12/7, 12/14)
• Poetry I Lyric and Tone Identity and Daily
  Life 
• Reading and Paraphrase theme meanings
• Every group short performance Group A W.
  Carlos Williams This is just to say (p. 797)
• Group B Chasin, Helen The Word Plum (p.
  828)Group C Brooks, Gwendolyn We Real Cool (p
  720)Group D Hayden, Robert Those Winter
  Sundays (p 783) Group E Frost, Robert
  Stopping by Woods (p1091)Group F Dickinson,
  Emily Im Nobody! Who Are You?

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Mini Play Contest Tentative Schedule
Play Cast Crew
10/22 General Introd Job Division starts Group Leaders
10/29 Act I and Act II. (pp. 11-37) Production Plan Casting Text Chosen
11/5 Act II III (pp. 38-71) Line reading Script Ready (11/6 the latest)
11/12 Act III-IV (pp. 71-87 Act V) Rehearsal w/ script Script Confirmed
11/19 Act V and Postscript Rehearsal w/ script Technical Meeting Costume/PROP deadline
11/26 Mini Play PreparationPoetry 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 (100-330)
12/17 Performance Day
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Performance Record 11/19
A(10, 1) B(2, 7) C(3, 9) D(4, 11) E(5, 8) F(6, 12)
Analysis
2- Reading
3. Theme Plot
4. Major Character
5. Character
6. Team Work
Performances

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See you next time!!!