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Act Five

ICSE · Class 12 · English-Play: Pygmalion

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Key Topics to Revise

1

Setting and Opening Crisis

  • Location: Mrs. Higgins's drawing-room in Chelsea (the morning after the embassy ball)
  • Time: Day of Alfred Doolittle's wedding—the same morning as Eliza's disappearance
  • Atmosphere: Panic from Higgins and Pickering contrasts with Mrs. Higgins's calm wisdom
2

Alfred Doolittle's Transformation and Middle Class Trap

  • Doolittle arrives at Mrs. Higgins's house unrecognizably transformed—dressed in fashionable frock-coat, white waistcoat, grey trousers, silk hat, and patent leather shoes
  • He confronts Higgins angrily: 'See here! Do you see this? You done this.'
  • Explanation: Higgins had once written to American millionaire Ezra D. Wannafeller recommending Doolittle as 'the most original moralist in England' as a joke
3

Mrs. Higgins Reveals the Truth About Eliza's Night

  • When argument about Eliza becomes circular, Mrs. Higgins delivers crucial information: 'If you really want to know where Eliza is, she is upstairs.'
  • Higgins moves to fetch her, but Mrs. Higgins stops him and explains what the night actually meant for Eliza
  • Eliza 'passed the night partly walking about in a rage, partly trying to throw herself into the river and being afraid to, and partly in the Carlton Hotel'
4

Eliza's Return: The New Self-Possessed Woman

  • Eliza enters 'sunny, self-possessed, giving a staggeringly convincing exhibition of ease of manner'
  • She carries a work-basket and sits down as if entirely at home in Mrs. Higgins's drawing-room
  • She greets Higgins with perfect social coolness: 'How do you do, Professor Higgins? Are you quite well?'

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