Everyone was taken aback by these manners of Eliza. However, Eliza slips into talking about her dead aunt in a suspicious manner and her father’s drinking problem. He wanted to check if Eliza can behave ladylike in the gathering by doing a small talk about the weather. To evaluate her progress, she is first set in the home of Higgins’ mother to talk to a family of the Eynsford. Although Higgins was surprised how a father can sell his own daughter for money.Īfter a few months and a lot of hard work by Eliza, Higgins succeeds in making her speak fluently in the accent spoken by the nobility of England. However, he pays him five-pound to leave his daughter to whom he could not identify in her new clothes and clean personality. Higgins, taking up the challenge, first asks Eliza to change her personality, pruning herself when her father, Alfred, appears and asks Higgins to return his daughter. For Higgins this is all an experiment and never seem to take Eliza’s feelings or emotions into consideration and how much it could hurt her if she found out. Pickering also bets on her that if Higgins succeeds by passing Eliza as a duchess, he would pay him the entire cost of the tuition and upkeep. She also takes some interest, seeing phonetic training to better her career prospects.Įliza even offers him a small fee but he refuses her due to his idea that he would work on her to transform her personality by changing her accent. He takes her with him to Wimpole Street to train her. Eliza was just a stranger taken by the men’s argument and becomes a subject of their bet and learning. Both have argument over the issue of the claim of Professor Higgins that he can transform anyone, even a simple flower girl, Eliza Doolittle, into a duchess through her phonetic training. Both are interested in linguistic the first as a phonetician and the second as an expert of an Indian, especially Sanskrit dialects and language.

The play shows Professor Higgins meeting Colonel Pickering in the Covent Garden during a rainy night.

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