ENGB30 Lecture Notes - George Bernard Shaw, The Flower Girl, Scullery Maid
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Co-founder of the london school of economics. Higgins: i shall make a duchess of this draggletailed guttersnipw. ( ) The stages of eliza"s progress: the flower girl (bathtaking scene; 35-36, the in-between stage ( mrs. higgin"s at-home; 59-61) Mrs higgin"s summary of the situation (64: the duchess /lady (71-72) Eliza expected to be taken to the scullery (kitchen area) Remember that you are a human being with a soul and the divine gift of articulate speech (18) Mr. higgins is very mean and cruel when teaching her english. You must look ahead a little. (32: you don"t mean her any harm; but when youget what you call interested in people"s accents, you never think or care what may happen to them or you. (34) Mrs. higgins: you two infinitely stupid male creatures (66-67) Says that she is worrying about nothing . First blowup (slipper-throwing scene: you don"t care.