Heather Austin Comp 3 Drama Analysis B2 George Bernard Shaw’s My Fair Lady is the story of a lady‚ by the name of Eliza‚ who lives and works on the street. Eliza sells flowers daily to make a living. Eliza hears a phonetics professor say he can take Eliza and pass her at an Embassy Ball in six months or less‚ just after he puts her down by saying‚ “Yes‚ you squashed cabbage leaf! You disgrace to the noble architecture of these columns” (650)! Eliza over hearing the professor’s
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Film Review: “My Fair Lady” “My Fair Lady” is a classic 1964 film produced by Jack Warner and James Katz and Directed by George Cukor. The film’s protagonist‚ an ambitious Phonetician‚ Professor Higgins‚ promises to transform the life and socio-economic status of a poor flower girl‚ the female protagonist‚ Eliza‚ by teaching her to speak Standard English and the ‘proper’ way to behave. He aspires to “change her into a different human being by creating a new speech for her.” By doing this he suggests
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My Fair Lady Reflection In the movie‚ there are some gender issues. In 1970s‚ women receive the unfair treatments. They could not live in the sex equality lives. Men always thought women were born for marrying with them‚ and their wives had to service them as the God. At that time‚ men usually went out for work‚ but women should stay home and do the household chores. In this way‚ men oppressed women indirectly. I think it is the sexism; males should not have the prejudice to women. Until now‚ these
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Review of My Fair Lady‚ as put on by Big League Productions Last month I saw a wonderful production of the musical “My Fair Lady” at Jesse Hall as a part of the University of Missouri Concert Series in Columbia. Big League Productions‚ Inc. is the touring theatre company who put on the show. They brought their own set‚ which consisted of a study in which most of the scenes took place‚ as well as the street entrance to the home of Prof. Higgins. There was also an elaborate backdrop used for the scenes
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My fair lady reflection For seeing several Audrey’s movies‚ this is the one that impressed me so much. In the beginning of the story‚ Audrey plays a flower girl named Eliza. She met Professor Higgins‚ who told her “Why it can’t be English?” Higgins could identify people from their accents. As during that time‚ only people from upper middle class or high class societies had the opportunities to learn proper English. And people spoke different accents or dialects according to the area they were born
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LEVEL 3 My Fair Lady Alan Jay Lerner acquaintance‚ Colonel Pickering‚ that after six months of lessons with him‚ he could teach Eliza to speak with such a pure upper-class accent that no one would be able to tell where she came from. Chapter 2: Eliza’s father‚ Alfred Doolittle was thrown out of the pub as he hasn’t got enough money to pay for his drinks. Eliza gives him some money. About the author My Fair Lady was originally a stage musical based on the play Pygmalion by George
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of both sexes have made major contributions to this area in literature but it remains surprising that male writers have been able to perceptively portray women above their previously subordinate positions in society. In George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion‚ we see the main character‚ Eliza Doolittle transformed from an ill-mannered Cockney flower girl into a high society debutante with the help of some elocution lessons provided by Mr Henry Higgins‚ a professor of phonetics and financed by his well-travelled
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In this essay I will be comparing and contrasting the way in which two different authors portray femininity in their respective dramatic texts. The two works I am using are Pygmalion by Bernard Shaw and Medea by Euripides. I will be looking at how the way men and women are portrayed can affect the way we interpret the texts‚ and showing that femininity isn’t necessarily a trait restricted just to women. I believe that femininity reflects expected female behaviour. There are certain traits which
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REVIEW OF MOVIE: MY FAIR LADY It has been theorized that the ability to communicate through language made the human species possible and in the same way‚ each individual becomes humanized as he/she enters into verbal communication with those around (Simmons-McDonald). If this statement is accepted as true‚ then it follows that the continued development of the human species depends on each individual being able to participate effectively in the process of communication. Was this the message
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Understanding the two texts “My fair Lady” and “Pretty Woman” have greatly developed and reshaped the indepth 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
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