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Plot
For a number of months, Higgins trains Eliza to speak properly. Ascot opening day(A horse race)
英国阿斯科特赛马开赛日
At the end of the story Eliza became a very lady like woman.
George Bernard Shaw wrote a play titled “Pygmalion”.
In Shaw’s play, the girl is brought to life by two men in speech — the goal for their masterpiece is for her to marry and become a duchess.
Pygmalion The Myth of Pygmalion and Galatea in Arts
The basic myth of Pygmalion and Galatea has Pygmalion been widely transmitted and re-presented in the arts through the centuries.
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Date premiered
October 16, 1913 (1913-10-16)
Place premiered
Hofburg Theatre in Vienna
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窈窕淑女
Eliza Doolittle
Lower class
A poor flower girl
Even though he had professed his disdain（轻蔑） of all females, he fell deeply in love with it.
He wound bring it gifts,y day. He wound dress the statue in fine clothing, and put rings on her fingers, necklaces around her neck and even earrings.
Aphrodite had given life to the statue, whose name was Galatea.
Soon Pygmalion and Galatea were wed.
Aphrodite blessed the nuptials（婚礼）, and this union between Pygmalion and Galatea produced a son named Paphos（帕福斯） Pygmalion and Galatea brought gifts to her temple throughout their life and Aphrodite blessed them with happiness and love in return.
Aphrodite was the Greek goddess of love ，beauty and fertility（繁衍）.
When Pygmalion went home, he embraced the statue, and was delighted to find that she was warm and soft to touch.
He saw women as flawed creatures and vowed never to waste any moment of his life with them.
He soon created a statue，who was beautiful and perfect than any woman that had ever lived or been carved in stone.
Written by Genre
George Bernard Shaw romantic comedy, social criticism
Pygmalion
Setting
London, England
• • • • • • Professor Henry Higgins Colonel Hugh Pickering Eliza Doolittle Freddy Eynsford-Hill Alfred Doolittle Mrs. Higgins
Pygmalion
Greek Myth My Fair Lady
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Greek Myth
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Pygmalion
Greek Myth
Pygmalion My Fair Lady
Have you ever heard of a Greek myth that a sculptor fell deeply in love with his statue?
• Such a passion could not go unnoticed by the goddess of love, Aphrodite. (阿芙洛狄忒）
• When Pygmalion went to her temple to sacrifice a bull, Aphrodite gave him a sign. • As the offering(供品） burned on the temple, the flames shot up one, two, three times.
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The Myth of Pygmalion & Galatea
（加拉提亚） Pygmalion was a talented Greek sculptor from Cyprus. (塞浦路斯）
Disgusted by some local prostitutes（娼妓）, he lost all interest in women and avoided their company completely.
Professor Higgins
Middle class
An expert in phonetics
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Colonel Pickering Upper class An officer in the army
Greek Myth Pygmalion
The phonetics professor Henry Higgins is an expert in dialects and accents. At Covent Garden he phonetically transcribes all that the innocent flower girl Eliza Doolittle says. Since he boasted of his successes in educating social climbers in speech, Eliza asked to be taught to speak like a lady so that she might be employed in a classy flower store. A fellow phonetics professor, Colonel Pickering, offers to cover the expenses of the experiment if Higgins can pass Eliza off as a duchess at a garden party six months later.