My Fair Lady

Essay by ManisaJunior High, 9th grade November 2014

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Manisa Nacharoen No. 15 Uraiwan Kadchiengsan No. 20My Fair Lady

One rainy night in London's Covent Garden market after the opera, a poor Cockney flower seller, Eliza Doolittle mistakes Henry Higgins, a gifted linguist as a policeman. Higgins then steps forward reveals himself to be a gifted linguist. He boasts to Colonel Hugh Pickering, another linguist that he could teach the flower seller to speak properly that he could pass her off as a duchess at an embassy ball or an assistant in a flower shop. After that, the two give Eliza some money, and she takes a cab home.

The next day, Eliza shows up at the professor's flat, willing to pay for elocution lessons. Higgins takes up the challenge. Thus, the bet between Higgins and Pickering is on. Eliza is dragged upstairs by housekeeper Mrs. Pearce and the maids to have her first bath. She will live in the house while she learns the ways of the upper class.

Eliza's father, Alfred P. Doolittle, an alcoholic dustman, shows up three days later, to protect his daughter's virtue in what he assumes to be a sexual situation. He actually wants to extract £5 from Higgins in exchange for Eliza and he is soon got the money. After a tight lesson of speech speaking, Eliza finally is able to pronounce vowels without her Cockney accent. She then begins to speak with an impeccable upper class accent.

As a test, Higgins takes Eliza to the Ascot Racecourse, where his mother is having a party, to see if she can handle herself like a lady in public. She at first makes a good impression with her gown, perfect elocution and genteel manners except her grammar. When she deviates from the script, she amuses those in attendance. Hence, Higgins gives...