Modern Drama
Modern Drama
Modern Drama
Homogenization: They want to take away their language as language is equal to identity and make
them think in the same fashion.
Differentiation: By treating them differently and making them realize they are different from the
people in the centre and by treating them differently.
Choose the following words to complete the comparison with the legend of Pygmalion.
Marks 5
The following roles in Cinderella’s story are performed by whom in Pygmalion? 3 Marks
Write down the character analysis of Prof Higgins as a teache of Phonetics, as a bully, as a confirmed
bachelor, as a decision maker, as a self -indulgent man. Marks10
Are the following true of the character of Eliza and Colonel Pickering. 8
1) Eliza has a quicker ear than Prof Higgins.
2) Colonel Pickering is not a confirmed bachelor like Higgins.
3) Colonel Pickering like Higgins insults Eliza and hurts her feelings.
4) According to Eliza Pickering treated her with respect which began her real education.
5) When Eliza realizes that her efforts are undervalued she becomes very obedient.
6) Eliza considers Colonel Pickering to be very generous as he bore the expenses of the
experiment.
7) Eliza thinks that Higgins taught her self-respect.
MRS. HIGGINS. You silly boy, of course she's not presentable. She's a triumph of your art and
of her dressmaker's; but if you suppose for a moment that she doesn't give herself away
in every sentence she utters, you must be perfectly cracked about her.
Q7.What is Mrs Higgins saying in these lines? Does she agree that Eliza looks like a duchess
now?
2 lines
Answer: She thinks that Eliza wears beautiful clothes and pronounces English words like people
from the upper class. But when she speaks to other people she reveals she is from a low
class of the society.
Question 2. Why does Eliza keeps repeating in the play, ‘I am a respectable girl.’ I am a good
girl I am.
HIGGINS. Playing! The hardest job I ever tackled: make no mistake about that, mother. But you have
no idea how frightfully interesting it is to take a human being and change her into a quite
different human being by creating a new speech for her. It's filling up the deepest gulf that
separates class from class and soul from soul.
Q. Shaw calls Higgins ‘impetuous baby’….requiring ….watching to keep him out of unintended
mischief?
He is very rash and does not think about the consequences of his actions.
Q.13. What was Higgins’ experience like. Read the following lines.
It was interesting enough at first, while we were at the phonetics; but after that I got deadly sick of it.
If I hadn't backed myself to do it I should have chucked the whole thing up two months ago. It
was a silly notion: the whole thing has been a bore.
Sample Answer: Higgins thinks it was interesting when he was teaching her Phonetics, but later on he
got bored with it and he could have ended it two months earlier if he had not pushed himself.
He thinks it was a silly idea.