ICSE Class 12 English-Play: Pygmalion — Chapter Summary

Act One is set at Covent Garden at 11.15 p.m. during a sudden heavy summer rainstorm. People crowd under the portico of St. Paul’s Church while rain and cab whistles create a lively street scene. The opening immediately introduces the central conflict of the play: class, speech, and social status. T

Act Two shifts the play from social encounter to deliberate experiment. Henry Higgins and Colonel Pickering are shown in Higgins's laboratory, where phonetics, recording devices, and scientific tools create a setting of study and control. Into this space comes Eliza Doolittle, no longer just a stree

Act Three is set during Mrs. Higgins’s at-home day in her flat on Chelsea Embankment, between four and five in the afternoon. The scene brings together the experiment, class satire, and the moral problem at the heart of the play. Eliza Doolittle enters looking elegant and sounding grammatically corr