Different dialect‚ different status‚ different identity? By: Angelina Costan What does the way we speak a language have to do with status and identity? Eliza Doolittle‚ who once was a flower girl‚ is now a noble lady. Her weird English dialect has changed into proper English‚ and now she is seen as an upper-class woman It appears that a dialect has a special role of determining someone’s status and change of dialect changes the person’s status in the society and identity. Is it true? People
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period‚ it still manages to successfully convey the important facets of fine arts. The movie My Fair Lady is a 1960’s musical‚ originally adapted from a play‚ Pygmalion. There are several different types of music included in the film. For example‚ one of the romantic songs is "I Could Have Danced All Night"‚ which is sung by Eliza Doolittle. While there are quite a few romantic songs‚ the movie also includes witty songs‚ such as "I’m Just an Ordinary Man". Overall‚ the music in the film was excellent
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Shaw’s play "Pygmalion" and the movie "Born Yesterday" both explore many of the same issues and characteristics. They are similar because they both portray that what other people think should not matter as much as what you think of yourself but‚ what show yourself to be is how people will think and view of you. This is shown by similarities between the characters Billie and Eliza and the combined attitudes of Harry and Paul to Henry Higgins. They also both share the plot of taking someone who
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Covent Garden From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation‚ search |Covent Garden | | | | |[pic] | |[pic] | |Location | |OS grid reference: |TQ303809
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Identity and the Fluidity of Society It is no secret that people are complicated animals‚ a diverse mix of biology‚ culture‚ and personality that a single role in society cannot encompass. Eliza Doolittle from George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion is an excellent example of how while we are often told that socio-economic class is a concrete‚ unwavering box where movement is limited at best‚ it is really a loose web of arbitrary parameters. A person cannot be trapped in a certain place in society because
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English Review Rhetorical Devices Allegory- a narrative in which characters and setting represent general concepts and ideas (Ex the tortoise and the hare) Alliteration-draws attention to a string of word through repetition of their initial sounds (Ex As Frankenstein‚ Boris Karloff rambled‚ raged‚ and roared) Allusion- an indirect reference to a well-known event‚ person‚ thing‚ or quality. (Ex Hamlet’s alludes to the Garden of Eden) Analogy- helps the reader understand something unfamiliar by
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Vertigo Vertigo is a very deeply loved masterpiece of Alfred Hitchcock’s. He made a stack of movies‚ yet Vertigo happens to be my favorite. The movie is about the inner and outer journey of two characters involved willingly and unwillingly in a set-up. In fact‚ there were a lot of behind the scenes ideas that the average movie-goer may not have known about yet. The movie begins with Jimmy Stewart talking to his friend after a long sequence where he is chasing a burglar on a roof top. In a
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comparison of the both studied texts. Texts reflect the concerns of in time in which they are written. The fantastic team work of Alan Jay Lerner and Frederic Lowe made My Fair Lady‚ an outstanding success in 1962. The story revolves around Eliza Doolittle‚ an unmannered cockney flower girl from Covent Garden‚ who agrees to take speech lessons from phonetician Henry Higgins in order to full fill her dream of working in a flower shop and to increase her standard of life. He saw her as inferior‚ uneducated
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does not like him‚ so he moves on. Petruchio and Katherine end up getting married and Petruchio ends up taming Katherine. Bianca and Lucentio end up eloping and go back to Padua where Baptista is. In the play Pygmalion written by Bernard Shaw is about a poor flower girl named Eliza Doolittle who
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painted with a trompe l’oeil technique to match the actual wooden elements‚ and they also provided the illusion of floor to ceiling bookcases. The effect was beautiful to look at. The cast was all around fabulous. My particular favorites were Alfred Doolittle‚ played by an actor named Arthur Wise‚ and Prof. Henry Higgins‚ played to perfection by Chris Carsten. Wise had the most beautiful baritone voice and his Cockney accent was flawless. His first big number‚ “With a Little Bit of Luck” was hilarious
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