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Act Two — Revision Notes
ICSE · Class 12 · English-Play: Pygmalion
Act Two revision notes for ICSE Class 12 English-Play: Pygmalion: 4 topics in quick points. Part of the ICSE Class 12 English-Play: Pygmalion syllabus.
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Key Topics to Revise
1
Setting and atmosphere
- The scene is set the next day at 11 a.m. in Higgins's laboratory in Wimpole Street.
- The room is a first-floor drawing-room used as a laboratory and filled with scientific and phonetic equipment.
- Important objects in the setting include a phonograph, a laryngoscope, tuning-forks, tiny organ pipes with a bellows, lamp chimneys for singing flames, a life-size image of half a human head showing t
2
Eliza's arrival and purpose
- Mrs. Pearce announces that a young woman wants to see Higgins and describes her as a common girl.
- Eliza Doolittle arrives as the Flower Girl from Act One, now slightly tidied and wearing a hat with three ostrich feathers in orange, sky-blue, and red.
- She has come to pay for elocution lessons so that she can work in a flower shop.
3
The wager and Higgins's reaction
- Pickering formally offers to pay all expenses if Higgins succeeds in passing Eliza off as a duchess at an ambassador's garden party.
- Higgins is immediately excited by the challenge and sees it as an inspired folly.
- He declares that he will make a duchess of the Flower Girl.
4
Eliza as a pupil
- Higgins instructs Mrs. Pearce to clean Eliza up, burn her old clothes, and order new ones from Whiteley's.
- He tells Eliza that she will live in the house for six months and learn to speak beautifully like a lady in a florist's shop.
- If she behaves well, she will get a proper bedroom, plenty of food, chocolates, and taxi rides.
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Frequently Asked Questions
What are the important topics in Act Two for ICSE Class 12 English-Play: Pygmalion?
Key topics in Act Two include Setting and atmosphere, Eliza's arrival and purpose, The wager and Higgins's reaction, Eliza as a pupil. Study these first, then practise questions on each for the ICSE Class 12 board exam.
How should I revise Act Two for the ICSE Class 12 board exam?
Learn the core ideas first, then work through the 45 practice questions on Act Two. Revise definitions regularly and use flashcards for quick recall before the exam.
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