Teacher Support Programme 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
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With the newfound acceptance of homosexuality‚ the border between male homosocial relations and homosexual relations has become fuzzy. The distinction between male homosocial and homosexual desires are what I will be exploring in My Fair Lady. In the classic movie My Fair Lady the relationship between Professor Higgins and Colonel Pickering displays both homosocial and homosexual characteristics‚ and models the triangular desire defined by Eve Sedgwick. Higgins invites Colonel Pickering to his house
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Bernard Shaw‚ was first performed on stage with Rex Harrison as Henry Higgins. The reception of the audience during the play was of utmost disappointment due to the non romantic ending of the play‚ even though that was Shaws initial intentions. My fair Lady on the other hand is a musical based on Pygmalion‚ and the movie was shot in 1964 by director George Cukor. Although there are numerous similarities between musical and play such as the character interactions or how both of them portray social
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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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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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‘MY FAIR LADY’ Henry Higgins is a professor of phonetics and believes that an important factor in establishing one’s own social status is by the way a person speaks and presents themselves. Every division of a society is marked by linguistic differences but Higgins believes that there is a perfect and proper approach to the English Language. Higgins speaks Standard English which is a widely accepted form of English in the United Kingdom also known as Received Pronunciation (RP). Non-standard grammatical
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ending‚ and have gone on to adjust the ending to what they would consider a “correct” ending (Solomon 60). This revised ending has spread into most productions and adaptations. It will be recreated yet again in the upcoming 2012 film remake of My Fair Lady‚ the musical adaptation of Pygmalion‚ and most will never know that another ending—the original ending—exists. In this paper‚ I will show that what is considered a “correct” ending by the revisers of Shaw’s play is actually nothing more than a
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particularly evidenced by the fact that a radical restructuring of the character he made even the main theme of the play "Pygmalion". After the exceptional success play and made it to the musical "My Fair Lady" story of Eliza was converted by Higgins Professor of Phonetics of street girls in fashionable lady‚ today‚ perhaps better known than the Greek myth. Pygmalion was a fabulous king of Cyprus‚ fell in love with the mess it created statue of a girl‚ which subsequently married after the revitalization
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I love Audrey Hepburn. She is my idol. Her name came into my mind when I was reading the assignment. I think it’s fun to introduce her to my audience. 2. I think most of my audience has seen movies such as Roman Holiday‚ Breakfast at Tiffany’s and My Fair Lady. Based on this‚ I know people from everywhere will also idol her. She is beautiful‚ elegant and fashionable. 3. I will show my audience pictures to give them some visual information. I will tell them my favorite quote of Audrey. Most people
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How do you respond to the presentation of Professor Henry Higgins in ‘Pygmalion’? Professor Henry Higgins is one of the main characters in Pygmalion‚ written by Bernard Shaw. Eliza Doolittle and Henry Higgins meet one rainy night in Covent Garden. We soon find out that Eliza Doolittle is a common flower girl by the way she speaks‚ ‘Garn. Oh do buy a flower off me Captain.‘(very cockney dialect) and the man who is taking notes of very thing she says is Professor Henry Higgins. He teaches Eliza
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