Biography Pygmalion

George Bernard Shaw. On summer evening, rain pours like a bucket. Passers-by are running to the Covent Gardena market and to the portico of the Cathedral of St. Paul, where several people have already hidden, including an elderly lady with her daughter, they are in the evening toilets, wait until Freddy, the lady’s son, will find a taxi and come for them. All, except one person with a notebook, look impatiently into the flows of rain.

Freddy, who has not found a taxi, appears in the distance, and runs to the portico, but on the way he flies onto a street flower grinder, in a hurry to hide from the rain, and knocks a basket of violets from her hands. She is bursting with abuse. A person with a notebook is in a hurry to write something. The girl laments that her violets disappeared, and begs to buy a bouquet standing right there.

The one to get rid of, gives her a trifle, but does not take flowers. Someone from passers-by draws the attention of a flower grinder, a sloppy dressed and unexplored girl that a person with a notebook clearly scribbles a denunciation on her. The girl begins to whimper. He, however, assures that he is not from the police, and surprises all those present in that he accurately determines the origin of each of them by their pronunciation.

Advertising Freddy'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 an interest in the abilities of a person with a notebook. He seems to be Henry Higgins, the creator of the “universal alphabet of Higgins”. The colonel turns out to be the author of the book Sanskrit.

The surname is his pikering. He lived in India for a long time and arrived in London specifically to get acquainted with Professor Higgins. The professor also always wanted to get acquainted with the colonel. They are already going to go to dinner at the colonel at the hotel when the flower grinder again begins to ask her to buy flowers from her. Higgins throws a handful of coins into her basket and leaves with the colonel.

The flower man sees that she now owns, by her standards, a huge amount. When Freddie arrives with the taxi finally caught by him, she gets into the car and, with a noise slamming the door, leaving. The next morning, Higgins at home demonstrates to Colonel Pikering his phonographic equipment. Suddenly, the housekeeper of Higgins, Mrs. Pierce, reports that a very simple girl wants to talk with the professor.

Yesterday's flower girl enters. She seems to be Eliza Dutylittl and reports that she wants to take phonetics lessons from the professor, because with her pronunciation she cannot get a job. The day before, she heard that Higgins gives such lessons. Eliza is sure that he will gladly agree to work out the money that yesterday, without looking, threw it into her basket. Of course, it’s ridiculous to talk about such amounts, but Pikering offers Higgins a bet.

He beats him to prove that in a matter of months he can, as he assured the day before, turn the street flower girl into a duchess. Higgins finds this proposal tempting, especially since Pikering is ready if Higgins win, pay the entire cost of Elisa's training. Mrs. Pierce takes Eliza to wash in the bathroom. Advertising after a while the father of Eliza comes to Higgins.

He is a garbage man, a simple person, but affects the professor with his born eloquence. Higgins asks Dulittla for permission to leave his daughter at home and gives him five pounds for this. When Eliza appears, already washed, in a Japanese robe, the father first does not even recognize his daughter. After a couple of months, Higgins leads Eliza to the house to her mother, just on her receiver.

He wants to know whether it is already possible to introduce a girl into a secular society. A guest of Mrs. Higgins are Mrs. Einsford Hill with his daughter and son. These are the very people with whom Higgins stood under the portico of the cathedral on the day when he first saw Eliza. However, they will not recognize the girl. At first, Eliza behaves, and speaks like a high -society lady, and then switches to a story about her life and uses such street expressions that all those present are given only.

Higgins pretends that this is a new secular jargon, thus smoothing the situation. Eliza leaves the audience, leaving Freddy in complete delight. Реклама После этой встречи он начинает слать Элизе письма на десяти страницах. After leaving guests, Higgins and Pikering vying, Mrs. Higgins about how they do with Eliza, how they teach her, take them to the opera, to exhibitions, dressed.

Mrs. Higgins finds that they treat a girl, like a living doll. She agrees with Mrs. Pierce, who believes that they "do not think about anything." A few months later, both experimenters take Eliza to a high -world reception, where she has a dizzying success, everyone takes her as a duchess. Higgins wins the bet. Arriving home, he enjoys the fact that the experiment, from which he had already managed to get tired, is finally completed.

He behaves and speaks in his ordinary rude manner, not paying the slightest attention to Eliza. The girl looks very tired and sad, but she is dazzlingly beautiful.It is noticeable that irritation accumulates in it. In the end, she launches his shoes in Higgins. She wants to die. She does not know that she will continue to live with her. After all, she became a completely different person.

Higgins assures that everything is formed. She, however, manages to hurt him, get it out of balance and thereby at least avenge herself a little. Advertising at night Eliza runs out of the house. The next morning Higgins and pickening lose their heads when they see that there is no elisa. They even try to find her with the help of the police. Higgins feels without Elise as without hands.

He does not know where his things are lying, nor any of him are scheduled for the day of business. Mrs. Higgins arrives. Then report on the arrival of the father of Eliza. Dolittl has changed a lot. Now he looks like a wealthy bourgeois.

In indignation, he pounces on Higgins for his fault he had to change his lifestyle and now become much less free than he was before. It turns out a few months ago Higgins wrote to America to one millionaire, who founded all over the world, the branches of the League of moral reforms, that Dutylitetle, a simple bin, is now the most original moralist throughout England. He died, and before his death he bequeathed to Dutylitetla Pai in his explosion for three thousand annual income, provided that Dutylitetle would give up to six lectures a year in his league of moral reforms.

He is lamented that today, for example, he even has to officially marry the one with whom he had lived without registering a relationship for several years. And all this because he is now forced to look like a venerable bourgeois. Mrs. Higgins is very glad that the father, finally, can take care of his changed daughter, as she deserves. Higgins, however, does not want to hear about “returning” to Dutlittla Eliza.

Advertising Mrs. Higgins says that he knows where Eliza is. The girl agrees to return if Higgins asks her forgiveness. Higgins does not agree to go to this in any way. Eliza enters. She expresses gratitude to Pickery for his handling her as a noble lady. It was he who helped Eliza to change, despite the fact that she had to live in a house of a rude, sloppy and iricked Higgins. Higgins is amazed.

Eliza adds that if he continues to “crush” her, she will go to Professor Nepin, a colleague of Higgins, and will become his assistant and inform him of all the discoveries made by Higgins. After a surge of indignation, the professor finds that now her behavior is even better and worthy than when she followed his things and brought him home shoes. Now, he is sure, they will be able to live together not just like two men and one stupid girl, but as "three friendly old bachelors." Eliza goes to her father’s wedding.

Apparently, she will still remain to live in the Higgins' house, because she managed to get attached to him, like him, and everything will go as before. E. Source retold: All masterpieces of world literature in a brief presentation. Plots and characters. What was incomprehensible? Found a mistake in the text? There are ideas, what is the best way to retell this book?

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