Pygmalion

Act ÌṾ
1-Describe Eliza’s appearance when she came back at the garden party?
She was wearing a brilliant evening dress and diamonds, with fan, flowers and all
accessories. She was very tired, her expression was almost tragic.
2- Describe Higgins and Pickering who won the bet?
Pickering was very excited and happy that Higgins won the bet, unlike Higgins
Who was really tired and happy that the whole experiment was over. He decided
Not to think of another one again.
3-What was Higgins looking for?
He was looking for his slippers.
4-Who brought Higgins slippers?
Eliza brought Higgins his slippers.
5-What’s Higgins’ reaction when Eliza brought the slippers?
When Eliza threw his slippers at him one after the other with all her force, he got
very angry and he didn’t expect she would do this to him. And asked why did she
throw the slippers at him?
6-Why does Higgins say’’ Thank God. It’s over’’?
Higgins said’’ Thank God. It’s over’’ referring to his experiment with Eliza
which was a success to him. These words show that he wasn’t happy with his
experiment although it was a successful one. He told Pickering that he was bored
with it and would have stopped it two months before, but he had to fulfill his
promise.
7-What does Higgins instruct Eliza to tell Mrs. Pearce?
Higgins instructed Eliza to tell Mrs. Pearce not to make coffee for him in
the morning and he would drink tea instead.
8-Why does Eliza throw Higgins, slippers in his face?
Eliza threw the slippers at Higgins face because he was very happy that the
experiment was over, he didn’t thank her for her great effort which led them
to succeed, he didn’t care at all about her future; where will she go, live or
even work. As his slippers was much more important for him than her.
9-What does Eliza blame Higgins on? Why?
She blamed him for being mean to her; she said that no one had treated her
badly like him before. She blamed him for bringing her to his house. She would
have fell better if he had left her at the place he got her from.

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10-What does Higgins advise Eliza about her future?
Higgins advised Eliza to get married or to open that flower shop she wished to have.
11-Why did Eliza ask Higgins about clothes belong to her?
Eliza wanted to know whether anything belongs to her as her own clothes were
burnt, because she didn’t want to be accused of stealing if she takes any clothes
with her.
12-What does Higgins say about Eliza’s belongings?
Higgins said that she may take the whole houseful if she likes except the jewels
because they are hired.
13-What does Eliza return back to Higgins? What does he do?
Eliza returned him a ring he bought for her, but he threw it violently into the
fireplace.
Act ÌṾ Quotations
1-‘’Thank God it’s over’’ Comment.
These words were said by Higgins to Pickering after they had returned from the
opera. It was very long day started at the garden party, then dinner party and after
that the Opera. When Higgins said that he was very happy that the whole
experiment was over.
2-‘’Tell Mrs. Pearce not to make coffee for me in the morning; I’ll take tea’’
Comment.
These words were said by Higgins to Eliza after they had returned from the opera.
He was ordering her like a servant to tell Mrs. Pearce not to make him coffee in
the morning and he would rather have tea instead. That shows how cruel and
mean was Higgins towards Eliza.
3-‘’because I wanted to smash your face. I’d like to kill you, you selfish brute’’
Comment.
These words were said by Eliza to Higgins after she threw his slippers at his face.
She was very angry that he neglected her and thought only about his slippers,
forgetting that she was the reason of his success at the party or success of his
experiment.
4-‘’What am I fit for? Where am I to go? What am I to do? What’s to become of
me?’’ Comment.
These words were said by Eliza to Higgins after she threw his slippers at his face. She
was very angry as he didn’t think about her future he was just happy that the experiment
was over. So she asked him what she will work, how will she live as she can’t have the
same life she had before and also she can’t afford the life she lived in his house as a lady.

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5-‘’You might marry; all men are not confirmed old bachelors like me and
colonel’’ Comment.
These words were said by Higgins to Eliza as she was talking about her future
He advised her to get married to a young man, not like him or Colonel Pickering.
He didn’t care whether she would be happy or not if she got married or opened
the flower shop she dreamt of.
6-‘’He might want them for the next girl you pick up to experiment on.’’ Comment.
These words were said by Eliza to Higgins referring to her clothes that might be
useful for Pickering who might give them to the next girl he would pick up for
the experiment. She was very angry with Higgins, who didn’t care about her
future. And wanted to know whether the clothes belong to her or not.
7-‘’This ring isn’t jeweller’s: it’s the one you bought me in Brighton.’’ Comment.
These words were said by Eliza to Higgins when she gave him the hired jewels to
keep them safe in his room, then she gave him the ring which he bought for her
in Brighton telling him that she doesn’t want it again.

Pygmalion
Act Ṿ
1-How does the fifth act open?
Act five opens at Mrs. Higgins’ house when the maid told her the Mr. Henry and
the Colonel came and they are phoning the police.
2-Why does Eliza go to Mrs. Higgins?
Eliza went to Mrs. Higgins to ask for her help and tell her how badly she was
being treated by Higgins and Pickering, they didn’t thank her for the great effort
she did to succeed the experiment and went on talking together of how glad they
were that it was all over and how they had been bored with the whole thing. Eliza
spent the night walking about in anger trying to throw herself into the river.
3- What does Higgins tell Mrs. Higgins (his mother) about Eliza?
He told his mother that Eliza didn’t sleep in her bed last night, she came in the
morning in a taxi for her things and Mrs. Pearce let her have them.
4-Why does Colonel Pickering want to do to find Eliza?
Colonel Pickering wanted to find Eliza because he wanted her to forgive Higgins
and stay with them and he believes that they can act like a team.
5-What does Mrs. Higgins think of Colonel Pickering and Higgins?
Mrs. Higgins thinks they have no more sense than two children.

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6-What does Higgins think of Doolittle at first?
Higgins thinks at first that Doolittle the gentleman at the door might be a relative
of Eliza who they know nothing about.
7-Describe Alfred Doolittle when he visited Mrs. Higgins?
When Alfred Doolittle visited Mrs. Higgins he was brilliantly dressed in a new
fashionable frock-coat, with white waistcoat and grey trousers. A flower in his
buttonhole, silk hat and patent leather shoes.
8-How does Doolittle become one of the middle-class?
Higgins wrote a letter to an American doctor was looking for a moralist person;
Higgins wrote in his letter that Alfred Doolittle is the most original moralist in
England, so Doolittle was giving three thousand a year on condition that he
lecture for Wannafeller Moral Reform World League.
9-What does Mrs. Higgins think of Doolittle’s fortune? Does he think so? What’s
Higgins opinion?
Mrs. Higgins thinks that Mr. Doolittle can solve the problem of Eliza’s future and
provide for her. Mr. Doolittle thinks that he can do that for Eliza, but Higgins
thinks that Eliza doesn’t belong to him as he paid him five pounds for her.
10-How does Mrs. Higgins feel sympathy towards Eliza?
Mrs. Higgins feels sympathy towards Eliza as she has been treated badly by
Higgins and Pickering for long as they don’t realize anything in the nature of
brain work means to a girl like her, Mrs. Higgins also felt so bad when she knew
that Eliza was trying to throw herself in the river.
11-Why was Eliza grateful to Colonel Pickering?
Eliza was grateful to Colonel Pickering because she learnt really nice manners
from him, and how to control herself. That’s how she became a lady because
Pickering was there.
12-Why does Colonel Pickering ask Eliza to forgive Higgins?
Colonel Pickering asked Eliza to forgive Higgins because he was the one who
taught her to speak, he didn’t mean to treat her badly as he was being himself, he
used to take off his boots all over the place.
13-Why does Higgins feel victory on Eliza’s meeting with Doolittle?
Higgins felt victory on Eliza’s meeting with Doolittle because she said words
doesn’t fit her as a lady on seeing her father’s splendor.
14-What does Doolittle tell Eliza?
Doolittle told Eliza that he is going to the church to marry her stepmother.

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15-How does Eliza show the difference between Pickering and Higgins in treating
her?
Eliza said the Pickering has always respected her from the beginning when he
called her Miss Doolittle that was her first lesson of self-respect and many little
things like taking off his hat and opening doors. But Higgins was treating her
like a maid, asking her to arrange his things, where he left his glasses, boots or
slippers. She said the Pickering treats a flower girl as a duchess, and Higgins
treats the duchess as flower girl.
16-What are the reasons given by Higgins that urge Eliza to come back?
Higgins told Eliza that he will miss her, he has learnt something from her idiotic
notion, he confesses that he has grown accustomed to her voice and appearance
and like them.
17-‘’The relation between Higgins and Eliza is the relation between the master and
his creation’’ Discuss.
Higgins tells Eliza he has become rather used to having her around and that he
would miss her if she went away, but Eliza retorts that he can always turn to his
gramophone for her voice and photographs for comfort since these objects don't
have any feelings to hurt.
18-‘’According to Higgins ‘’making life making trouble’’ discuss.
Eliza asks Higgins why he created Duchess Eliza without thinking about the trouble
it would create for her. Higgins replies that the world would never have been created
if its maker had been afraid of making trouble.
19-What does Eliza tell Higgins about Freddy?
Eliza reveals much to Higgins, surprise that Freddy Hill loves her and would
probably make her happy.
20-How does Higgins hurt Eliza’s pride?
Higgins says that Eliza can marry a sentimental hog or somebody with lots of money
who doesn't respect her.
21-What does Eliza say to Higgins about her future’s plans?
Eliza declares that she will advertise in the paper that Higgins duchess is only a
common flower girl that he has taught that she will teach the same to any one for a
hundred guineas.
22-What does Higgins make fun of at the end of the play?
Higgins makes fun of Eliza's decision to marry Freddy who isn't even fit to be an
everybody.

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 Act ÌṾ Quotations
1-‘’Go upstairs and tell Miss Doolittle that Mr. Henry and Colonel are here. Ask her
not to come down till I send for her.’’ Comment.
These words were said by Mrs. Higgins to the her maid in her own house.
Mrs. Higgins sent the maid to tell Eliza not to show herself as Henry and
Colonel came to look for her.
2-‘’Instead of going to bed she changed her clothes and went off: her bed wasn’t
slept in’’ Comment.
These words were said by Higgins to his mother at her house when he went with
Pickering to look for Eliza. He told her that Eliza left last night and didn’t sleep
in her bed, she came in the morning for her things before seven and Mrs. Pearce
let her have them.
3-‘’What right have you to go to the police and give the girl’s name as if she were
a thief’’ Comment.
These words were said by Mrs. Higgins to Higgins at her house when he told her
that he set the police after Eliza. Mrs. Higgins disapproved their reaction as they
don’t have the right to look for her. She isn’t a thief.
4-‘’It’s some relative of hers that she’s gone to somebody we know nothing about.’’
Comment.
These words were said by Higgins to Pickering at his mother’s house, when the
maid told him that Mr. Doolittle wants to meet him. He thought that the
gentleman at the door might be a relative of Eliza who they know nothing about.
5-‘’Well I’m very glad you’re not going to do anything foolish.’’ Comment.
These words were said by Mrs. Higgins to Alfred Doolittle at her house, when
he was explaining how he was pushed into the middle class, and how his life has
changed. Mrs. Higgins told him that she is glad because he will be able to solve
the problem of Eliza’s future.
6-‘’Well I’m afraid she won’t go back to Wimpole Street.’’ Comment.
These words were said by Mrs. Higgins to Pickering at her house when she told
Higgins and Pickering how bad and cruel they were treating Eliza as they didn’t
Thank her for the hard work she did to succeed the experiment and went on
talking together of how glad they were that it was all over and how they had
been bored with the whole thing. She is sure that Eliza won’t go back with them.
7-‘’I have created this thing out of the squashed cabbage leaves of Covent Garden,
and now she pretends to play the fine lady with me.’’ Comment.
These words were said by Higgins to his mother at her house when he asked
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 Eliza to come back home, Eliza didn’t say a ward but his mother spoke instead,
so Higgins asked his mother to let Eliza speak for herself telling her that he had
put ideas in her head and words into her mouth, he created that creature Eliza.
8-‘’Let her go. Let her find out how she can get on without us she will relapse into
the gutter in three weeks without me and her elbow’’ Comment.
These words were said by Higgins to Pickering, when Pickering asked Eliza to
forgive Higgins; he got angry asked Pickering to let her go, he said that she will
not be able to go on as lady for long as she expected she will start behaving badly
again in less than three weeks away from them.
9-‘’Well, you have both of on your gramophone and on your book of photographs.’’
Comment.
These words were said by Eliza to Higgins when he asked her to come back to his
house because he will miss her as he got used to hear her voice and see her in his
own house, Eliza answered him saying that he has her voice recorded on the
gramophone so he can listen to it whenever he misses her.
10-‘’You and I and Pickering will be three old bachelors together instead of only
two men and a silly girl.’’ Comment.
These words were said by Higgins to Eliza when she told him that she will offer
herself as an assistant to Professor Nepean, then she said that she will advertize
in the papers that she will teach anybody to be duchess in six months for
a thousand as she has a finer ear than him and can be civil and kind to people.
At that moment he gave her that offer that she can work with him and Pickering.

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