Friday, April 29, 2011

Why does Higgins agree to educate the flower girl in George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion?

Henry
Higgins, a linguist, happens to overhear Cockney flower seller Eliza Doolittle speaking in lower
classat Covent Garden. He brags that:

in three months I
could pass that girl off as a duchess at an ambassador's garden party.


He goes home, thinking no more of that passing comment or of the
Cockney flower seller.

In her cold room, however, Eliza ponders what Higgins
said about teaching her to speak like lady. She'd like a better life for herself, so she boldly
shows up at his doorstep the next day. She demands lessons and offers to pay a shilling apiece
for them.

Higgins is ready to throw her...

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