Drama- is a literary composition involving a conflict action crisis and atmosphere designed to

be acted by players on a stage before an audience. -Pygmalion is a play by George Bernard

Exposition - in the introduction of the play Pygmalion a sudden downpour has pedestrians in
Covent Garden sprinting for shelter or taxis beneath the portico of St. Paul's Church a young the
flower girl an older gentleman and a man taking notes on the flower girl speech are gathered.
Rising Action - in the rising action becomes clear that the note-taking man is only interested in
phonetically noting the flower girls curbstone English he boast that he could teach her to speak
like a duchess in three months it turns out that he is the famous Fonatitian Henry Higgins the
elderly gentleman is Colonel Pickering an admirer and fellow speech expert Higgins invites
Pickering to come around the next day to his home on wimple Street the next morning the flower
girl Eliza Doolittle boldly shows up at Higgins his home where she offers to pay him to teach
her to talk more genteel Pickering who is present says he will cover all expenses if in six months
Higgins can pass Eliza off as a lady Higgins accepts the bet and begins tutoring Eliza in speech
and manners months later Higgins takes Eliza on a surprise visit to his mother an intelligent and
dignified lady it's a test of her newly learned skills Eliza now looks and acts the part of a fine
lady but her vocabulary an unfortunate choice of topics gives away her humble beginnings some
difficulty Higgins covers her gaffes while Freddie is smitten with Eliza.
Climax- After winning the bet, Higgins acts like he's sick of it. He and Pickering continue to talk
about Eliza as if she wasn't even part of the plan. Eliza is angry with Higgins and throws a Shoe
at him. Eliza decides to leave the Higgins house.
Falling Action- Higgins learns Eliza is in fact staying with his mother who defends Eliza's
choice to leave him and Pickering a calm composed Eliza comes downstairs and greets the men
thanking Pickering for treating her with respect from the very beginning but she says she no
longer needs Higgins and she will not come back Higgins accused of serving gratitude but still
holds out hopes for her returning.
the resolution Eliza leaves Higgins remains unsure about whether or not she is gone for good
Conflict
The main conflict presented in these Drama by Show , is the difference between classes because
here we have characters who represent high class society and also middle class society . I think
that the leading Character is Elisa who wants to became a lady and she just wants to escape form
her unstable position as it seemed throughout the play she was hindered by various
circumstances for example her family which was also from the lower class then her manner of
speaking which was not at all like a lady's conversation. “Cheer ap, Keptin; n’ haw ya flahr orf a
pore gel.” And if we speak about crucial decision that will effect the outcome of the play is the
decision when Elisa first decided to study at Professor Higgins but then she would leave him
because for to him she was just a thing that he had created everything repeats itself again as in
the ancient play.
Setting
 20TH century London , England
All of the play's action is confined to three places,
 The portico outside St. Paul’s Cathedral, central London.
 Act II: 27A Wimpole street, Marylebone, London. House of Professor Higgins, and
here we have the description “ It is a room on the first floor, looking on the street, and
was meant for the drawing-room. The double doors are in the middle of the back hall;
and persons entering find in the corner to their right two tall file cabinets at right
angles to one another against the walls. In this corner stands a flat writing-table, on
which are a phonograph, a laryngoscope, a row of tiny organ pipes with a bellows, a
set of lamp chimneys for singing flames with burners attached to a gas plug in the wall
by an India rubber tube, several tuning forks of different sizes, a life-size image of half
a human head, showing in section the vocal organs, and a box containing a supply of
wax cylinders for the phonograph. Further down the room, on the same side, is a
fireplace, with a comfortable leather-covered easy-chair at the side of the hearth
nearest the door, and a coalscuttle. There is a clock on the mantelpiece. Between the
fireplace and the phonograph table is a stand for newspapers. On the other side of the
central door, to the left of the visitor, is a cabinet of shallow drawers. On it is a
telephone and the telephone directory. The corner beyond, and most of the side wall, is
occupied by a grand piano, with the keyboard at the end furthest from the door, and a
bench for the player extending the full length of the keyboard. On the piano is a dessert
dish heaped with fruit and sweets, mostly chocolates. The middle of the room is clear.
Besides the easy chair, the piano bench, and two chairs at the phonograph table, there
is one stray chair. It stands near the fireplace. On the walls, engravings; mostly
Piranesis and mezzotint portraits.
 Act III: Mrs Higgins’s home, Chelsea embankment, London . Her drawing-room, in
a flat on Chelsea embankment, has three windows looking on the river; and the ceiling
is not so lofty as it would be in an older house of the same pretension. In the middle of
the room there is a big ottoman; and this, with the carpet, the Morris wall-papers, and
the Morris chintz window curtains and brocade covers of the ottoman and its cushions,
supply all the ornament, and are much too handsome to be hidden by odds and ends of
useless things. A few good oil-paintings from the exhibitions in the Grosvenor Gallery
thirty years ago (the Burne Jones, not the Whistler side of them) are on the walls. The
only landscape is a Cecil Lawson on the scale of a Rubens. There is a Chippendale
chair further back in the room between her and the window nearest her side. At the
other side of the room, further forward, is an Elizabethan chair roughly carved in the
taste of Inigo Jones. On the same side a piano in a decorated case. The corner between
the fireplace and the window is occupied by a divan cushioned in Morris chintz.
 Act IV: Back to Wimpole street, Higgins laboratory

 Act V: Back to Mrs Higgins’s.

Critical Standards
Chief emphasis is around the idea that professor Higgins can change Elisa into a duchess and
also here we have Elisa’s desire to became a lady. at the end of the play we see the
transformation of Eliza into a lady but it is also worth noting that for Higgins it was all just an
experiment that he brilliantly conducted, Higgins in the drama is presented as an insensitive
person, he is a scientist he only believes in facts he was obsessed with changing Elise but as we
know after achieving the effect he was left disappointed. Well in fact I think that we have some
element of romanticism , well firstly Colonel Pickering attitude to Elisa at the very beginning
and until the end “[to Pickering, as he passes her] Buy a flower, kind gentleman. I’m short for
my lodging. PICKERING. I really haven’t any change. I’m sorry [he goes away].”And as proof
romantic element from Eliza to Pickering because she was attached to him may be she loves him
“ I want to be indifferent to someone who doesn't care about me” Higgins. In short, do you want
me to sigh for you as much as Freddie? Yes
Eliza. No, I don't want to. I need a different feeling from you. I want a little attention, a kind
word. I know, I'm simple, girl, and you're a great scholar and a gentleman. But I'm a human
being, not a lump of dirt under your feet. If I did anything (he corrects himself hastily), if I did
anything, it wasn't for dresses and taxis. I did it because we were good together, and I started… I
started to get attached to you…
Character Analysis
Higgins- Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion is a talented Professor of phonetics named Henry Higgins.
One day he spotted poor flower girl Eliza Doolittle. The girl's appearance spoke of extreme
poverty, and her manner of speech spoke of her lack of education and upbringing. But, despite
this, something in the girl's appearance attracted eyes to her. Higgins began to write down her
words, which scared the poor girl. Eliza's simple and even vulgar speech aroused the Professor of
phonetics ' pedagogical interest. He even made a bet with a friend that he could turn an
uneducated beggar into a real lady in six months. The Professor is described in the play as a
strong, healthy man of about forty. The clothing is dominated by black, which gives it a strict
appearance. Although at its core, Henry is a flighty child who is not ashamed to truthfully
Express his emotions. Everyone was already used to his outbursts of anger. The hero combines
rudeness and elegance. He is an intelligent man, well-educated, but unwilling to observe the
conventions of society. Henry shows no real respect for his student Eliza, not because she is just
a flower girl, but because all people are not as valuable to him as science. And so Higgins even
treats the Duchess like a flower girl. The hero is talented in his scientific field, is keenly
interested in research. But in relationships with people, he has problems. Henry is not interested
in the feelings of others, he simply does not take them seriously. When the hero has an idea to
raise a real lady from a poor flower girl, he takes her to his home for full Board. Henry spares no
expense and talent to achieve his goal.

The experiment was a success-Eliza really made a splash at a social reception 6 months later.
High society accepted her as a Duchess, without seeing a trace of the flower girl. Higgins did not
hide his joy, not because he was delighted with the student's progress, but because he won the bet
by proving his idea.

The hero was not interested in the fate of Eliza Doolittle. The girl changed not only externally,
but also internally, so she began to wonder how to live on? There is no way to be a real Duchess
without money and connections, but she can't return to the life of a flower girl either. Henry
Higgins showed Eliza another beautiful world, gave her the illusion that she could become a part
of it. But at the end of the experiment, the Professor forgets about his "creation". Therefore, the
writer, calling his hero Pygmalion, is ironic.
Eliza- The image of Eliza is dynamic in the play. At first, we imagine a poor, unkempt girl who
sells flowers to feed herself. She does not trust people, so she is afraid of the person who for
some reason writes down all her words. This person was Professor of phonetics Henry Higgins.
He was struck by the simplicity of Eliza's speech. Eliza Doolittle agrees to an unusual
experiment and begins to learn from Higgins. Surprisingly, however, the girl very quickly
assimilated the educational material, made huge strides in her cultural growth. Gradually her
speech became expressive and beautiful; her manners refined. The girl was able to Shine at a
social reception in 6 months. But she didn't know what to do with her life. Her teacher won the
bet and lost interest in the girl. Having opened the beautiful world to Eliza for the duration of her
studies, the Professor was not going to support her any further. And the heroine herself was not
able to continue to lead the life of a noble lady. This required money, position in society. Eliza
Doolittle, thanks to her natural qualities and a talented teacher, was able to change not only
externally, but also internally. She began to acquire "herself", but how to realize herself in life,
she still did not understand. Henry Higgins thought he had achieved his ultimate goal by training
the poor flower girl, but he did not expect the girl to want to live like a completely new person.

Types of Drama
I believe that is a comedy because we have a character like Elisa she must go through all the
obstacles throughout the play there doesn't have to be a happy ending , well I will say that “
Pygmalion” is a comedy in five acts , to some extent this Comedy makes fun of the morals and
norms of society for example a father can sell his daughter for a few pounds and I think that this
is the comedy of manners cause we can see a huge differences between two social classes. the
Comedy describes perfectly with details absolutely all the places in which the play took place .
we see differences in the characters in their manners clothing and behavior. We also see the
distribution of power between the poor and the rich the moment when Higgins allegedly ruined
the life of Eliza's father. Doolittle has changed a lot, now he looks like a prosperous bourgeois.
He indignantly attacks Higgins for the fact that through his fault he had to change his usual way
of life and become much less free than before. It turns out that a few months ago Higgins wrote
to America to a millionaire philanthropist, the founder of the "moral reform League", that the
most original moralist in all of England is Alfred Doolittle, a simple garbage man. The
millionaire had recently died, and in his will he left Doolittle three thousand pounds a year on the
condition that Doolittle would lecture at his League. The play ends with an open finale.