![]() ![]() ![]() Pickering, on the other hand, studies Indian dialects as an amateur. He is extremely rational, quick to get carried away and to swear he attaches little importance to human relations and to the young florist herself. To him Eliza is a subject of experimentation. Eliza cleverly seizes this opportunity and convinces the two men to educate her. Higgins boasts to Pickering that he is able to turn the flower girl into a duchess within six months, teaching her the distinguished use of the English language and its pronunciation. Taking shelter from the rain, she meets two gentlemen, the linguist Henry Higgins and Colonel Pickering, back from India. Eliza is uneducated, neglected, speaks with a dreadful cockney accent, and is easily irritated. George Bernard Shaw's play, meanwhile, features a real young woman, Eliza Doolittle, who is selling flowers in the street in Covent Garden. ![]() ![]() The goddess Aphrodite then gives life to the statue, which Pygmalion marries 1. In an ancient legend, Pygmalion is a Cypriot sculptor who shapes an ivory statue of a woman, Galatea, and falls in love with her. But this play, which inspired the American musical comedy My Fair Lady, is above all the origin of a very important concept for anyone who educates, trains, coaches, mentors or directs others: the Pygmalion effect. It was both a critique of English society at the time, which was organized into separate social classes, and a plea for the proper use of the English language. In 1912, George Bernard Shaw wrote a five-act play called Pygmalion. ![]()
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