Bernard Shaw is Pygmalion for short. "Pygmalion. Higgins wins the bet
The play takes place in London. On a summer evening, the rain pours like buckets. Passers-by run to Covent Garden Market and the portico of St. Pavel, where several people have already taken refuge, including an elderly lady and her daughter, they are in evening dresses, waiting for Freddie, the lady’s son, to find a taxi and come for them. Everyone, except one person with a notebook, impatiently peers into the streams of rain. Freddie appears in the distance, having not found a taxi, and runs to the portico, but on the way he runs into a street flower girl, hurrying to hide from the rain, and knocks a basket of violets out of her hands. She bursts into abuse. A man with a notebook is hastily writing something down. The girl laments that her violets are missing and begs the colonel standing right there to buy a bouquet. To get rid of it, he gives her some change, but does not take flowers. One of the passersby draws the attention of the flower girl, a sloppily dressed and unwashed girl, that the man with the notebook is clearly scribbling a denunciation against her. The girl begins to whine. He, however, assures that he is not from the police, and surprises everyone present by accurately determining the origin of each of them by their pronunciation.
Freddie's mother sends her son back to look for a taxi. Soon, however, the rain stops, and she and her daughter go to the bus stop. The Colonel shows interest in the abilities of the man with the notebook. He introduces himself as Henry Higgins, creator of the Higgins Universal Alphabet. The colonel turns out to be the author of the book “Spoken Sanskrit”. His name is Pickering. He lived in India for a long time and came to London specifically to meet Professor Higgins. The professor also always wanted to meet the colonel. They are about to go to dinner at the colonel’s hotel when the flower girl again starts asking to buy flowers from her. Higgins throws a handful of coins into her basket and leaves with the colonel. The flower girl sees that she now owns, by her standards, a huge sum. When Freddie arrives with the taxi he finally hailed, she gets into the car and, noisily slamming the door, drives off.
The next morning, Higgins demonstrates his phonographic equipment to Colonel Pickering at his home. Suddenly Higgins's housekeeper, Mrs. Pierce, reports that a certain very ordinary girl wants to talk to the professor. Yesterday's flower girl enters. She introduces herself as Eliza Dolittle and says that she wants to take phonetics lessons from the professor, because with her pronunciation she cannot get a job. The day before she had heard that Higgins was giving such lessons. Eliza is sure that he will happily agree to work off the money that yesterday, without looking, he threw into her basket. Of course, it’s funny for him to talk about such sums, but Pickering offers Higgins a bet. He encourages him to prove that in a matter of months he can, as he assured the day before, turn a street flower girl into a duchess. Higgins finds this offer tempting, especially since Pickering is ready, if Higgins wins, to pay the entire cost of Eliza's education. Mrs. Pierce takes Eliza to the bathroom to wash her.
After some time, Eliza's father comes to Higgins. He is a scavenger, a simple man, but he amazes the professor with his innate eloquence. Higgins asks Dolittle for permission to keep his daughter and gives him five pounds for it. When Eliza appears, already washed, in a Japanese robe, the father does not even recognize his daughter at first. A couple of months later, Higgins brings Eliza to his mother's house, just on her reception day. He wants to find out whether it is already possible to introduce a girl into secular society. Mrs. Eynsford Hill and her daughter and son are visiting Mrs. Higgins. These are the same people with whom Higgins stood under the portico of the cathedral on the day he first saw Eliza. However, they do not recognize the girl. Eliza at first behaves and talks like a high-society lady, and then goes on to talk about her life and uses such street expressions that everyone present is amazed. Higgins pretends that this is new social jargon, thus smoothing over the situation. Eliza leaves the crowd, leaving Freddie in complete delight.
After this meeting, he begins to send ten-page letters to Eliza. After the guests have left, Higgins and Pickering vying with each other, enthusiastically telling Mrs. Higgins about how they work with Eliza, how they teach her, take her to the opera, to exhibitions, and dress her. Mrs. Higgins finds that they are treating the girl like a living doll. She agrees with Mrs. Pearce, who believes that they "don't think about anything."
A few months later, both experimenters take Eliza to a high society reception, where she is a dizzying success, everyone takes her for a duchess. Higgins wins the bet.
Arriving home, he enjoys the fact that the experiment, from which he was already tired, is finally over. He behaves and talks in his usual rude manner, not paying the slightest attention to Eliza. The girl looks very tired and sad, but at the same time she is dazzlingly beautiful. It is noticeable that irritation is accumulating in her.
She ends up throwing his shoes at Higgins. She wants to die. She doesn’t know what will happen to her next, how to live. After all, she became a completely different person. Higgins assures that everything will work out. She, however, manages to hurt him, throw him off balance and thereby at least a little revenge for herself.
At night, Eliza runs away from home. The next morning, Higgins and Pickering lose their heads when they see that Eliza is gone. They are even trying to find her with the help of the police. Higgins feels like he has no hands without Eliza. He doesn’t know where his things are, or what he has scheduled for the day. Mrs Higgins arrives. Then they report the arrival of Eliza's father. Dolittle has changed a lot. Now he looks like a wealthy bourgeois. He lashes out at Higgins indignantly because it is his fault that he had to change his lifestyle and now become much less free than he was before. It turns out that several months ago Higgins wrote to a millionaire in America, who founded branches of the League of Moral Reforms all over the world, that Dolittle, a simple scavenger, is now the most original moralist in all of England. He died, and before his death he bequeathed to Dolittle a share in his trust for three thousand annual income, on the condition that Dolittle would give up to six lectures a year in his League of Moral Reforms. He laments that today, for example, he even has to officially marry someone with whom he has lived for several years without registering a relationship. And all this because he is now forced to look like a respectable bourgeois. Mrs. Higgins is very happy that the father can finally take care of his changed daughter as she deserves. Higgins, however, does not want to hear about “returning” Eliza to Dolittle.
Mrs. Higgins says she knows where Eliza is. The girl agrees to return if Higgins asks her for forgiveness. Higgins does not agree to do this. Eliza enters. She expresses gratitude to Pickering for his treatment of her as a noble lady. It was he who helped Eliza change, despite the fact that she had to live in the house of the rude, slovenly and ill-mannered Higgins. Higgins is amazed. Eliza adds that if he continues to “pressure” her, she will go to Professor Nepean, Higgins’ colleague, and become his assistant and inform him of all the discoveries made by Higgins. After an outburst of indignation, the professor finds that now her behavior is even better and more dignified than when she looked after his things and brought him slippers. Now, he is sure, they will be able to live together not just as two men and one stupid girl, but as “three friendly old bachelors.”
Eliza goes to her father's wedding. Apparently, she will still live in Higgins’s house, since she has become attached to him, just as he has become attached to her, and everything will continue as before.
Pygmalion
The play takes place in London. On a summer evening, the rain pours like buckets. Passers-by run to Covent Garden Market and the portico of St. Pavel, where several people have already taken refuge, including an elderly lady and her daughter, they are in evening dresses, waiting for Freddie, the lady’s son, to find a taxi and come for them. Everyone, except one person with a notebook, impatiently peers into the streams of rain. Freddie appears in the distance, having not found a taxi, and runs to the portico, but on the way he runs into a street flower girl, hurrying to hide from the rain, and knocks a basket of violets out of her hands. She bursts into abuse. A man with a notebook is hastily writing something down. The girl laments that her violets are missing and begs the colonel standing right there to buy a bouquet. To get rid of it, he gives her some change, but does not take flowers. One of the passersby draws the attention of the flower girl, a sloppily dressed and unwashed girl, that the man with the notebook is clearly scribbling a denunciation against her. The girl begins to whine. He, however, assures that he is not from the police, and surprises everyone present by accurately determining the origin of each of them by their pronunciation.
Freddie's mother sends her son back to look for a taxi. Soon, however, the rain stops, and she and her daughter go to the bus stop. The Colonel shows interest in the abilities of the man with the notebook. He introduces himself as Henry Higgins, creator of the Higgins Universal Alphabet. The colonel turns out to be the author of the book “Spoken Sanskrit”. His name is Pickering. He lived in India for a long time and came to London specifically to meet Professor Higgins. The professor also always wanted to meet the colonel. They are about to go to dinner at the colonel’s hotel when the flower girl again starts asking to buy flowers from her. Higgins throws a handful of coins into her basket and leaves with the colonel. The flower girl sees that she now owns, by her standards, a huge sum. When Freddie arrives with the taxi he finally hailed, she gets into the car and, noisily slamming the door, drives off.
The next morning, Higgins demonstrates his phonographic equipment to Colonel Pickering at his home. Suddenly, Higgins's housekeeper, Mrs. Pierce, reports that a certain very simple girl wants to talk to the professor. Yesterday's flower girl enters. She introduces herself as Eliza Dolittle and says that she wants to take phonetics lessons from the professor, because with her pronunciation she cannot get a job. The day before she had heard that Higgins was giving such lessons. Eliza is sure that he will happily agree to work off the money that yesterday, without looking, he threw into her basket. Of course, it’s funny for him to talk about such sums, but Pickering offers Higgins a bet. He encourages him to prove that in a matter of months he can, as he assured the day before, turn a street flower girl into a duchess. Higgins finds this offer tempting, especially since Pickering is ready, if Higgins wins, to pay the entire cost of Eliza's education. Mrs. Pierce takes Eliza to the bathroom to wash her.
After some time, Eliza's father comes to Higgins. He is a scavenger, a simple man, but he amazes the professor with his innate eloquence. Higgins asks Dolittle for permission to keep his daughter and gives him five pounds for it. When Eliza appears, already washed, in a Japanese robe, the father does not even recognize his daughter at first. A couple of months later, Higgins brings Eliza to his mother's house, just on her reception day. He wants to find out whether it is already possible to introduce a girl into secular society. Mrs. Eynsford Hill and her daughter and son are visiting Mrs. Higgins. These are the same people with whom Higgins stood under the portico of the cathedral on the day he first saw Eliza. However, they do not recognize the girl. Eliza at first behaves and talks like a high-society lady, and then goes on to talk about her life and uses such street expressions that everyone present is amazed. Higgins pretends that this is new social jargon, thus smoothing over the situation. Eliza leaves the crowd, leaving Freddie in complete delight.
After this meeting, he begins to send ten-page letters to Eliza. After the guests have left, Higgins and Pickering vying with each other, enthusiastically telling Mrs. Higgins about how they work with Eliza, how they teach her, take her to the opera, to exhibitions, and dress her. Mrs. Higgins finds that they are treating the girl like a living doll. She agrees with Mrs. Pearce, who believes that they "don't think about anything."
A few months later, both experimenters take Eliza to a high society reception, where she is a dizzying success, everyone takes her for a duchess. Higgins wins the bet.
Arriving home, he enjoys the fact that the experiment, from which he was already tired, is finally over. He behaves and talks in his usual rude manner, not paying the slightest attention to Eliza. The girl looks very tired and sad, but at the same time she is dazzlingly beautiful. It is noticeable that irritation is accumulating in her.
She ends up throwing his shoes at Higgins. She wants to die. She doesn’t know what will happen to her next, how to live. After all, she became a completely different person. Higgins assures that everything will work out. She, however, manages to hurt him, throw him off balance and thereby at least a little revenge for herself.
At night, Eliza runs away from home. The next morning, Higgins and Pickering lose their heads when they see that Eliza is gone. They are even trying to find her with the help of the police. Higgins feels like he has no hands without Eliza. He doesn’t know where his things are, or what he has scheduled for the day. Mrs Higgins arrives. Then they report the arrival of Eliza's father. Dolittle has changed a lot. Now he looks like a wealthy bourgeois. He lashes out at Higgins indignantly because it is his fault that he had to change his lifestyle and now become much less free than he was before. It turns out that several months ago Higgins wrote to a millionaire in America, who founded branches of the League of Moral Reforms all over the world, that Dolittle, a simple scavenger, is now the most original moralist in all of England. He died, and before his death he bequeathed to Dolittle a share in his trust for three thousand annual income, on the condition that Dolittle would give up to six lectures a year in his League of Moral Reforms. He laments that today, for example, he even has to officially marry someone with whom he has lived for several years without registering a relationship. And all this because he is now forced to look like a respectable bourgeois. Mrs. Higgins is very happy that the father can finally take care of his changed daughter as she deserves. Higgins, however, does not want to hear about “returning” Eliza to Dolittle.
Mrs. Higgins says she knows where Eliza is. The girl agrees to return if Higgins asks her for forgiveness. Higgins does not agree to do this. Eliza enters. She expresses gratitude to Pickering for his treatment of her as a noble lady. It was he who helped Eliza change, despite the fact that she had to live in the house of the rude, slovenly and ill-mannered Higgins. Higgins is amazed. Eliza adds that if he continues to “pressure” her, she will go to Professor Nepean, Higgins’ colleague, and become his assistant and inform him of all the discoveries made by Higgins. After an outburst of indignation, the professor finds that now her behavior is even better and more dignified than when she looked after his things and brought him slippers. Now, he is sure, they will be able to live together not just as two men and one stupid girl, but as “three friendly old bachelors.”
Eliza goes to her father's wedding. Apparently, she will still live in Higgins’s house, since she has become attached to him, just as he has become attached to her, and everything will continue as before.
Bernard Shaw's work "Pygmalion" tells the reader about how people's lives change thanks to education. Characters: Eliza Dolittle, poor flower girl; her father, a garbage man; Colonel Pickering; young man - scientist Henry Higgins; Mrs. Hill with her daughter and son Freddie. Events take place in London.
... On a summer evening, it rains like buckets. People run to the portico of the church, hoping to hide there from the rain. Among them are an elderly lady, Mrs. Hill and her daughter. The lady's son, Freddie, runs to look for a taxi, but on the way he bumps into a young girl, street flower girl Eliza Doolittle. He knocks the basket of violets out of her hands. The girl scolds loudly. A man writes down her words in a notebook. Someone says that this man is a police informer. It is later revealed that the man with the notebook is Henry Hingins, the author of the Higgins Universal Alphabet. Hearing this, one of those standing near the church, Colonel Pickering, becomes interested in Hingins’ identity. He had long wanted to meet Hingins, since he himself is interested in linguistics. At the same time, the flower girl continues to lament the flowers that have fallen to the ground. Higgins throws a handful of coins into her basket and leaves with the Colonel. The girl is sincerely happy - by her standards, she now has a huge fortune.
The next morning, Higgins demonstrates his phonographic equipment to Colonel Pickering at his home. The housekeeper reports that a “very simple girl” wants to talk to the professor. Eliza Doolittle appears. She wants to take phonetics lessons from the professor because her pronunciation is preventing her from getting a job. Higgins wants to refuse, but the colonel offers a bet. If Higgins can “turn a street flower girl into a duchess” in a few months, then Pickernig will pay for her entire education. This offer seems very tempting to Higgins, and he agrees.
Two months pass. Higgins brings Eliza Dolittle to his mother's house. He wants to find out whether it is already possible to introduce a girl into secular society. The Hill family is visiting Higgins' mother, but no one recognizes the flower girl who came. The girl at first talks like a high society lady, but then switches to street slang. The guests are surprised, but Higgins manages to smooth the situation over: he says that this is a new secular jargon. Eliza causes complete delight among those gathered.
A few months later, both experimenters take the girl to a high society reception. Eliza is a dizzying success there. Thus, Higgins wins the bet. Now he doesn’t even pay attention to Eliza, which irritates her. She throws her shoes at him. The girl feels that her life has no meaning. At night she runs away from Higgins' house.
The next morning, Higgins discovers that Eliza is not there and tries to find her with the help of the police. Without Eliza, Higgins is “like without hands”: he can’t find where his things are, what day to schedule things for. Higgins' mother knows she can be found. The girl agrees to return if Higgins asks her for forgiveness.
As a result, Eliza Dolittle returns to the Higgins house, and now she is not considered a stupid girl, but is valued and respected as a person.
This is how B. Shaw’s work “Pygmalion” ends.
Bernard Show
Pygmalion
Novel in five acts
Characters
Clara Eynsford Hill, daughter.
Mrs Eynsford Hill her mother.
Passerby.
Eliza Doolittle, flower girl.
Alfred Doolittle Eliza's father.
Freddie, son of Mrs. Eynsford Hill.
Gentleman.
Man with a notebook.
Sarcastic passerby.
Henry Higgins, professor of phonetics.
Pickering, Colonel.
Mrs Higgins, Professor Higgins' mother.
Mrs Pierce, Higgins's housekeeper.
Several people in the crowd.
Housemaid.
Act one
Covent Garden. Summer evening. It's raining like buckets. From all sides the desperate roar of car sirens. Passers-by run to the market and to the Church of St. Paul, under whose portico several people had already taken refuge, including elderly lady with her daughter, both in evening dresses. Everyone peers with annoyance into the streams of rain, and only one Human, standing with his back to the others, apparently completely absorbed in some marks that he makes in notebook. The clock strikes a quarter past eleven.
Daughter (stands between the two middle columns of the portico, closer to the left). I can’t take it anymore, I’m completely chilled. Where did Freddy go? Half an hour has passed, and he’s still not there.
Mother (to the right of the daughter). Well, not half an hour. But still, it’s time for him to get a taxi.
passerby (to the right of the elderly lady). Don’t get your hopes up, lady: now everyone is coming from the theaters; He won’t be able to get a taxi before half past twelve.
Mother. But we need a taxi. We can't stand here until half past eleven. This is simply outrageous.
Passerby. What do I have to do with it?
Daughter. If Freddie had any sense, he would have taken a taxi from the theater.
Mother. What is his fault, poor boy?
Daughter. Others get it. Why can't he?
Coming from Southampton Street Freddie and stands between them, closing the umbrella from which water flows. This is a young man of about twenty; he is in a tailcoat, his trousers are completely wet at the bottom.
Daughter. Still haven't gotten a taxi?
Freddie. Nowhere, even if you die.
Mother. Oh, Freddie, really, really not at all? You probably didn't search well.
Daughter. Ugliness. Won't you tell us to go get a taxi ourselves?
Freddie. I'm telling you, there isn't one anywhere. The rain came so unexpectedly, everyone was taken by surprise, and everyone rushed to the taxi. I walked all the way to Charing Cross, and then in the other direction, almost to Ledgate Circus, and did not meet a single one.
Mother. Have you been to Trafalgar Square?
Freddie. There isn't one in Trafalgar Square either.
Daughter. Were you there?
Freddie. I was at Charing Cross Station. Why did you want me to march to Hammersmith in the rain?
Daughter. You haven't been anywhere!
Mother. It's true, Freddie, you're somehow very helpless. Go again and don't come back without a taxi.
Freddie. I'll just get soaked to the skin in vain.
Daughter. What should we do? Do you think we should stand here all night, in the wind, almost naked? This is disgusting, this is selfishness, this is...
Freddie. Okay, okay, I'm going. (Opens an umbrella and rushes towards the Strand, but on the way runs into a street flower girl, hurrying to take cover from the rain, and knocks a basket of flowers out of her hands.)
At the same second, lightning flashes, and a deafening clap of thunder seems to accompany this incident.
Flower girl. Where are you going, Freddie? Take your eyes in your hands!
Freddie. Sorry. (Runs away.)
Flower girl (picks up flowers and puts them in a basket). And also educated! He trampled all the violets into the mud. (He sits down on the plinth of the column to the right of the elderly lady and begins to shake off and straighten the flowers.)
She can't be called attractive in any way. She is eighteen to twenty years old, no more. She is wearing a black straw hat, badly damaged in its lifetime from London dust and soot and hardly familiar with a brush. Her hair is some kind of mouse color, not found in nature: water and soap are clearly needed here. A tan black coat, narrow at the waist, barely reaching the knees; from under it a brown skirt and a canvas apron are visible. Shoes, apparently, also knew better days. Without a doubt, she is clean in her own way, but next to the ladies she definitely seems like a mess. Her facial features are not bad, but the condition of her skin leaves much to be desired; In addition, it is noticeable that she needs the services of a dentist.
Mother. Excuse me, how do you know that my son's name is Freddy?
Flower girl. Oh, so this is your son? There is nothing to say, you raised him well... Is this really the point? He scattered all the poor girl's flowers and ran away like a darling! Now pay, mom!
Daughter. Mom, I hope you won't do anything like that. Still missing!
Mother. Wait, Clara, don't interfere. Do you have change?
Daughter. No. I only have sixpence.
Flower girl (with hope). Don't worry, I have some change.
Mother (daughters). Give it to me.
The daughter reluctantly parts with the coin.
So. (To the girl.) Here are the flowers for you, my dear.
Flower girl. God bless you, lady.
Daughter. Take her change. These bouquets cost no more than a penny.
Mother. Clara, they don't ask you. (To the girl.) Keep the change.
Flower girl. God bless you.
Mother. Now tell me, how do you know this young man’s name?
Flower girl. I don't even know.
Mother. I heard you call him by name. Don't try to fool me.
Flower girl. I really need to deceive you. I just said so. Well, Freddie, Charlie - you have to call a person something if you want to be polite. (Sits down next to his basket.)
Daughter. Wasted sixpence! Really, Mom, you could have spared Freddie from this. (Disgustingly retreats behind the column.)
Elderly gentleman - a pleasant type of old army man - runs up the steps and closes the umbrella from which water is flowing. His pants, just like Freddie's, are completely wet at the bottom. He is wearing a tailcoat and a light summer coat. She takes the empty seat at the left column, from which her daughter has just left.
The play takes place in London. On a summer evening, the rain pours like buckets. Passers-by run to Covent Garden Market and the portico of St. Pavel, where several people have already taken refuge, including an elderly lady and her daughter, they are in evening dresses, waiting for Freddie, the lady’s son, to find a taxi and come for them. Everyone, except one person with a notebook, impatiently peers into the streams of rain. Freddie appears in the distance, having not found a taxi, and runs to the portico, but on the way he runs into a street flower girl, hurrying to hide from the rain, and knocks a basket of violets out of her hands. She bursts into abuse. A man with a notebook is hastily writing something down. The girl laments that her violets are missing and begs the colonel standing right there to buy a bouquet. To get rid of it, he gives her some change, but does not take flowers. One of the passersby draws the attention of the flower girl, a sloppily dressed and unwashed girl, that the man with the notebook is clearly scribbling a denunciation against her. The girl begins to whine. He, however, assures that he is not from the police, and surprises everyone present by accurately determining the origin of each of them by their pronunciation.
Freddie's mother sends her son back to look for a taxi. Soon, however, the rain stops, and she and her daughter go to the bus stop. The Colonel shows interest in the abilities of the man with the notebook. He introduces himself as Henry Higgins, creator of the Higgins Universal Alphabet. The colonel turns out to be the author of the book “Spoken Sanskrit”. His name is Pickering. He lived in India for a long time and came to London specifically to meet Professor Higgins. The professor also always wanted to meet the colonel. They are about to go to dinner at the colonel’s hotel when the flower girl again starts asking to buy flowers from her. Higgins throws a handful of coins into her basket and leaves with the colonel. The flower girl sees that she now owns, by her standards, a huge sum. When Freddie arrives with the taxi he finally hailed, she gets into the car and, noisily slamming the door, drives off.
The next morning, Higgins demonstrates his phonographic equipment to Colonel Pickering at his home. Suddenly, Higgins's housekeeper, Mrs. Pierce, reports that a certain very simple girl wants to talk to the professor. Yesterday's flower girl enters. She introduces herself as Eliza Dolittle and says that she wants to take phonetics lessons from the professor, because with her pronunciation she cannot get a job. The day before she had heard that Higgins was giving such lessons. Eliza is sure that he will gladly agree to work off the money that yesterday, without looking, he threw into her basket. Of course, it’s funny for him to talk about such sums, but Pickering offers Higgins a bet. He encourages him to prove that in a matter of months he can, as he assured the day before, turn a street flower girl into a duchess. Higgins finds this offer tempting, especially since Pickering is ready, if Higgins wins, to pay the entire cost of Eliza's education. Mrs. Pierce takes Eliza to the bathroom to wash her.
After some time, Eliza's father comes to Higgins. He is a scavenger, a simple man, but he amazes the professor with his innate eloquence. Higgins asks Dolittle for permission to keep his daughter and gives him five pounds for it. When Eliza appears, already washed, in a Japanese robe, the father does not even recognize his daughter at first. A couple of months later, Higgins brings Eliza to his mother's house on her reception day. He wants to find out whether it is already possible to introduce a girl into secular society. Mrs. Eynsford Hill and her daughter and son are visiting Mrs. Higgins. These are the same people with whom Higgins stood under the portico of the cathedral on the day he first saw Eliza. However, they do not recognize the girl. Eliza at first behaves and talks like a high-society lady, and then goes on to talk about her life and uses such street expressions that everyone present is amazed. Higgins pretends that this is new social jargon, thus smoothing over the situation. Eliza leaves the crowd, leaving Freddie in complete delight.
After this meeting, he begins to send ten-page letters to Eliza. After the guests have left, Higgins and Pickering vying with each other, enthusiastically telling Mrs. Higgins about how they work with Eliza, how they teach her, take her to the opera, to exhibitions, and dress her. Mrs. Higgins finds that they are treating the girl like a living doll. She agrees with Mrs. Pearce, who believes that they “don't think about anything.”
A few months later, both experimenters take Eliza to a high society reception, where she is a dizzying success, everyone takes her for a duchess. Higgins wins the bet.
Arriving home, he enjoys the fact that the experiment, from which he was already tired, is finally over. He behaves and talks in his usual rude manner, not paying the slightest attention to Eliza. The girl looks very tired and sad, but at the same time she is dazzlingly beautiful. It is noticeable that irritation is accumulating in her.
She ends up throwing his shoes at Higgins. She wants to die. She doesn’t know what will happen to her next, how to live. After all, she became a completely different person. Higgins assures that everything will work out. She, however, manages to hurt him, throw him off balance and thereby at least a little revenge for herself.
At night, Eliza runs away from home. The next morning, Higgins and Pickering lose their heads when they see that Eliza is gone. They are even trying to find her with the help of the police. Higgins feels like he has no hands without Eliza. He doesn’t know where his things are, or what he has scheduled for the day. Mrs Higgins arrives. Then they report the arrival of Eliza's father. Dolittle has changed a lot. Now he looks like a wealthy bourgeois. He lashes out at Higgins indignantly because it is his fault that he had to change his lifestyle and now become much less free than he was before. It turns out that several months ago Higgins wrote to a millionaire in America, who founded branches of the League of Moral Reforms all over the world, that Dolittle, a simple scavenger, is now the most original moralist in all of England. He died, and before his death he bequeathed to Dolittle a share in his trust for three thousand annual income, on the condition that Dolittle would give up to six lectures a year in his League of Moral Reforms. He laments that today, for example, he even has to officially marry someone with whom he has lived for several years without registering a relationship. And all this because he is now forced to look like a respectable bourgeois. Mrs. Higgins is very happy that the father can finally take care of his changed daughter as she deserves. Higgins, however, does not want to hear about “returning” Eliza to Dolittle.
Mrs. Higgins says she knows where Eliza is. The girl agrees to return if Higgins asks her for forgiveness. Higgins does not agree to do this. Eliza enters. She expresses gratitude to Pickering for his treatment of her as a noble lady. It was he who helped Eliza change, despite the fact that she had to live in the house of the rude, slovenly and ill-mannered Higgins. Higgins is amazed. Eliza adds that if he continues to “pressure” her, then she will go to Professor Nepean, Higgins’ colleague, and become his assistant and inform him of all the discoveries made by Higgins. After an outburst of indignation, the professor finds that now her behavior is even better and more dignified than when she looked after his things and brought him slippers. Now, he is sure, they will be able to live together not just as two men and one stupid girl, but as “three friendly old bachelors.”
Eliza goes to her father's wedding. Apparently, she will still live in Higgins’s house, since she has become attached to him, just as he has become attached to her, and everything will continue as before.
Option 2
On a summer day, townspeople, fleeing the downpour, hide under the portico of St. Paul's Cathedral. Higgins watches the assembled neighbors in misfortune, making notes in a notebook. He wrote the book “Higgins Universal Alphabet”. Colonel Pickering, the creator of the book “Spoken Sanskrit,” became interested in this man and they met. The gentlemen decided to have dinner at the hotel. Along the way, Higgins threw a handful of change to the girl selling violets.
The next morning, Higgins hosted Pickering at his home and a violet merchant comes there asking him to give her phonetics lessons so that she can get a decent job. Pickering and Higgins make a bet that the latter will turn the merchant into a duchess in a matter of months. And if Higgins can do this, then Pickering will pay all the costs of the Merchant.
This is how Eliza achieves her desire to study. For two months the girl lives in Higgins's house and he works hard with her. He brings her to his mother, who is giving a reception, to understand whether there is any result from his labors. Eliza behaves like a society lady, but when talking about her former life, she switches to street slang. Higgins saves the day by presenting this jargon as a modern secular trend. His pupil left her mother's guests completely delighted.
One of the guests at Freddie's reception is so captivated by the girl that he writes ten-page letters to her. A few more months later, Higgins and Pickering take their ward to a high society reception. And there she was considered a duchess. Pickering lost the argument. But now Eliza is sad. She has changed and does not understand what to do next. Higgins assures that everything will work out, but does so in his usual rude manner. Eliza throws her shoes at Higgins and goes to her room.
In the morning, Higgins and Pickering discovered that Eliza was missing. Higgins is so used to Eliza that he cannot imagine life without her, he does not know where his things are or what activities are planned for the day. Eliza took on the duties of a personal assistant. He tries to find it by contacting the police. Higgins is visited by Eliza's father. He was previously a simple scavenger, but now he has become a bourgeois. He wrote to the American millionaire, the organizer of the League of Moral Reforms, and he, dying, left Dullittle a share, on condition that he began to lecture at the League. And now Dolittle can support his daughter himself, but Higgins doesn’t even want to hear about it.
Soon Eliza returns and she tells Higgins that he must apologize to her and continue to treat her more politely, otherwise she will become an assistant to his competitor Nepean. Higgins is pleased with the girl and the manners that he instilled in her and now she can live in his house and be on an equal footing with him.
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