ICSE Class 12 English-Play: Pygmalion — Flashcards for Quick Revision

A: Act One is set at Covent Garden at 11.15 p.m. during a sudden heavy summer rainstorm. The rain creates confusion, movement, and tension right from the start.

A: The opening stage direction creates a lively and crowded atmosphere. The sudden rain and hurried cab whistles make the scene feel urgent, while the sheltering crowd brings together people from differe

A: The Note Taker is a brilliant but insensitive phonetics professor. In Act One, he is not named directly and appears only as the Note Taker. He secretly writes down the Flower Girl's speech and treats

A: Act Two is set the next day at 11 a.m. in Higgins's laboratory in Wimpole Street. The room is filled with phonetic tools and scientific equipment such as a phonograph, laryngoscope, tuning-forks, wax

A: Higgins is introduced as a robust, vital man of forty, dressed in a professional-looking black frock-coat with a white linen collar and black silk tie. He is energetic, scientifically minded, and care

A: The laboratory shows that Higgins treats speech as a scientific subject. The phonograph, laryngoscope, tuning-forks, and wax cylinders suggest careful study, recording, and measurement of sound. His i

A: Act Three is set on Mrs. Higgins's at-home day in her flat on Chelsea Embankment. The scene takes place between four and five in the afternoon in a cultured drawing-room with a balcony, flowers, and t

A: Mrs. Higgins is Henry Higgins's mother. She is over sixty, sensible, cultured, and long past dressing out of fashion. She acts as the moral and practical voice of the scene because she sees more clear

A: Higgins comes in with his usual lack of social tact because he wants to discuss his phonetic experiment. He has taken on a common flower girl and is training her for a bet with Pickering so that she c