Consider the play that Bernard Shaw created ("Pygmalion"). A brief summary of it is presented in this article. This play takes place in London. It was based on the myth of Pygmalion.

The summary begins with the following events. One summer evening it rains heavily. Passers-by, trying to escape from him, run towards the Covent Garden market, as well as to the portico of St. Pavel, under which several people had already taken refuge, including an elderly lady and her daughter, dressed in evening dresses. They are waiting for the lady's son, Freddie, to find a taxi and come here for them. All these people, except the man with the notebook, peer impatiently into the streams of rain.

Freddie gives money to the flower girl

Freddy appears in the distance. He did not find a taxi and runs to the portico. However, on the way, Freddie accidentally bumps into a street flower girl who is in a hurry to take cover from the rain, and knocks a basket of violets out of the girl’s hands. The flower girl bursts into obscenities. A man standing at the portico is hastily writing something down in a notebook. The girl laments that her violets are missing and begs the colonel standing here to buy a bouquet. He gives her some change to get rid of it, but doesn’t take flowers. One passer-by draws the attention of a girl, an unwashed and sloppily dressed flower girl, to the fact that a man with a notebook is probably scribbling a denunciation against her. She starts to whine. A passerby, however, assures that this man is not from the police, and surprises everyone present by accurately determining the origin of everyone by pronunciation.

The lady, Freddie's mother, sends her son back to find a taxi. Meanwhile, the rain stops and she walks with her daughter to the bus stop.

Henry Higgins meeting with Colonel Pickering

"Pygmalion" continues with the following events. A summary of Higgins' meeting with Pickering is presented below.

The colonel is interested in who is holding the notebook in his hands. He introduces himself as Henry Higgins and says that he is the author of the “Higgins Universal Alphabet.” The colonel himself turns out to be the creator of a book called “Conversational Sanskrit”. His last name is Pickering. This man lived for a long time in India, and came to London specifically to meet Higgins. Tom also wanted to meet the colonel for a long time. The two are going to go to the Colonel's hotel for dinner.

The flower girl gets a "great fortune"

But then the flower girl begins to ask again to buy flowers from her. Higgins throws a handful of coins into her basket and leaves with the colonel. The girl notices that she now owns, by her standards, a large fortune. When Freddie arrives with the taxi he finally hailed, she gets into the car and drives off, slamming the door noisily.

Eliza visits Professor Higgins

You are reading a description of the plot of a work created by George Bernard Shaw ("Pygmalion"). A summary is just an attempt to highlight the main events of the play.

The next morning, Higgins demonstrates his phonographic equipment to the Colonel at his home. Unexpectedly, his housekeeper, Mrs. Pierce, reports to Higgins that some very simple girl wants to talk to the professor. Yesterday's flower girl appears. The girl introduces herself to him and says that she wants to take phonetics lessons from the professor, since she cannot get a job with her pronunciation. Eliza had heard the day before that Higgins was giving these lessons. She is sure that he will happily agree to work off the money that he threw into her basket yesterday without looking.

The bet made by Pickering and Higgins

Of course, it’s funny for him to talk about such amounts. But Pickering offers a bet to Higgins. He encourages him to prove that in a matter of months, as he claimed the day before, he can turn a street flower girl into a duchess. Higgins finds it tempting. In addition, the colonel is ready, if he wins, to pay the cost of Eliza’s education. The girl is taken by Mrs. Pierce to the bathroom to clean up.

Meeting with Eliza's father

B. Shaw ("Pygmalion") continues his work with Eliza's meeting with her father. The summary of this episode is as follows. After some time, Eliza's father comes to Higgins. This is a simple man, a scavenger. However, he amazes the professor with his innate eloquence. Higgins asks him for permission to keep his daughter and gives him 5 pounds for this. When Eliza appears in a Japanese robe, already washed, Dolittle does not recognize her at first.

Eliza's success with Mrs Higgins

Higgins takes the girl to his mother's house a few months later. The professor wants to find out whether it is already possible to introduce her to Mrs. Higgins, Eynsford Hill is visiting with her son and daughter. These are the people with whom Higgins stood under the portico on the day he saw Eliza for the first time. However, they don't recognize the girl. At first, Eliza talks and behaves like a high society lady. But then she starts talking about her life and uses street language. Higgins tries to pretend that this is just new secular jargon, and thus smooths over the situation. The girl leaves the crowd, leaving Freddie in complete delight.

After this meeting, he begins to send Eliza letters on 10 pages. After the guests leave, Pickering and Higgins vying with each other to tell Mrs. Higgins how they teach Eliza, take her to exhibitions, to the opera, and dress her. She finds that they are treating this girl like a doll. Mrs. Higgins agrees with Mrs. Pearce, who believes that they are not thinking about anything.

Higgins wins the bet

After a few months, both experimenters take Eliza to a high-society reception. The girl is a dizzying success. Everyone thinks it's the Duchess. Higgins wins the bet.

Arriving home, the professor enjoys the fact that the experiment is finally finished, from which he is already a little tired. He talks and behaves in his usual rude manner, not paying the slightest attention to Eliza. The girl looks sad and tired, but still she is dazzlingly beautiful. Eliza's irritation begins to build.

Eliza runs away from home

Unable to bear it, the girl throws his shoes at the professor. She wants to die. The girl doesn’t know how to live, what will happen to her next. After all, she turned into a completely different person. Higgins says everything will work out. However, Eliza manages to hurt him. She throws the professor off balance and thereby avenges herself at least a little.

At night the girl runs away from home. In the morning, Pickering and Higgins lose their heads when they notice that Eliza is missing. They even involve the police in her search. Higgins feels like he has no hands without Eliza. He cannot find his things, does not know what tasks he has scheduled for the day.

The New Life of Dolittle the Scavenger (Pygmalion)

Mrs. Higgins comes to see her son. Then they report to Higgins about the arrival of the girl’s father. He has changed a lot and looks like a wealthy bourgeois. Dolittle lashes out in indignation at Higgins for the fact that, through his fault, he had to change his usual way of life and become a much less free person. It turned out that several months ago Higgins wrote to a millionaire in America, who founded branches of the Moral Reform League around the world. He said in a letter that a simple scavenger, Dolittle, is now the most original moralist in England. The American died, and before his death he bequeathed a share in his trust to this scavenger, on the condition that he would give up to 6 lectures a year in his League of Moral Reforms. Dolittle laments that he even has to marry the one with whom he has lived for several years without registering the relationship, since now he must look like a respectable bourgeois. According to Mrs. Higgins, the father will finally be able to take care of his daughter properly. However, Higgins does not want to hear about returning Eliza to Dolittle.

Return of Eliza

This play is an allusion (ironic) to the ancient myth “Pygmalion and Galatea”. A summary of further events is as follows. Mrs. Higgins reports that she knows where the girl is. She agrees to return on the condition that Higgins asks her for forgiveness. He does not agree to do this in any way. Eliza appears. The girl expresses gratitude to Pickering for treating her like a noble lady. After all, it was he who helped Eliza change, who had to live in the house of the ill-mannered, slovenly and rude Higgins. The professor is amazed. The girl adds that if Higgins continues to put pressure on her, she will go to Higgins’ colleague, Professor Nepean, and will be his assistant. Eliza threatens to inform Nepean about all of Higgins' discoveries. The professor finds that her behavior is now even more worthy and better than when the girl brought him shoes and looked after his things. Higgins is confident that they can now live together as “three friendly old bachelors.”

Let us describe the final events of the work "Pygmalion". The summary of the play was presented by going to his father's wedding. She, apparently, will still live in Higgins’s house, since she has managed to become attached to him, and he to her. And everything will continue as before for them.

This is how the work of interest to us ends, created by Bernard Shaw ("Pygmalion"). The summary gives an idea of ​​the main events of this world famous play. It consists of five acts. Bernard Shaw created Pygmalion in 1913. You can also find out a brief summary of it by watching one of the many productions. There is also a musical based on it (“My Fair Lady”).

The play was based on a story whose main characters are Pygmalion and Galatea (myth). The summary of this story, however, has been significantly altered. In his Galatea, Professor Higgins does not see a person. He doesn't care what happens to her after the girl turns into a "duchess". However, Eliza, who initially showed sympathy for her creator, knows her worth. In Kuhn's book "Legends and Myths of Ancient Greece" you can read the story of "Pygmalion and Galatea". The myth, a brief summary of which was taken as the basis for the play we are interested in, will help to better understand the work of B. Shaw.

This work tells the story of how two linguistic experts taught correct English pronunciation to a simple girl selling flowers on the streets of London. Eliza, as the girl was called, entered high society and became one of the most fashionable and interesting ladies, whom many young rich women began to imitate. A girl falls in love with one of her teachers, and the reader is led to believe that they are destined to be together.

The main idea of ​​the play is that those who were lucky enough to be born noble and rich are not always better and smarter than those who do not belong to high society.

Read the summary of Bernard Shaw Pygmalion

In London, several people took shelter from the rain at the entrance to a theater. This is a family named Hill, from high society, who want to leave the theater by taxi. Mother and daughter are afraid that the rain will ruin their dresses and wait until their son and brother named Freddy find a taxi. Poor Freddy can't find a car for them.

There, two linguists known for their scientific work are waiting out the rain, one of whom is called Professor Higgins, and the other is Mr. Pickering. They know about each other's work and have a lucky chance to meet each other. Near the theater, next to them stands a simple, unkempt girl named Eliza, selling flowers.

While all these people are trying to find a taxi and leave, one of the men accidentally pushes the girl and she drops her flowers. The girl swears, and linguists talk about her pronunciation. One inadvertently thrown phrase from Professor Higgins makes the girl seriously think about her life. The professor said that in a short time he could teach the girl such a pronunciation that she would be hired to work in the most fashionable flower shop in London.

The next morning Eliza managed to find Mr. Higgins. She wants to learn proper English so she can work in a good place. The professor does not need her money, but the idea seems interesting to him, in addition, Mr. Pickering wants to conduct an experiment and wants to make a bet with him.

Professor Higgins leaves Eliza in his house and entrusts her to his housekeeper. His bet with Mr. Pickering is to teach the girl to talk like a duchess.

Eliza's father appears, a garbage man who came to Mr. Higgins to get her. An interesting dialogue ensues between them, in which the garbage man amazes Mr. Higgins with the originality of his thoughts and judgments.

A month later, Professor Higgins, wanting to conduct an experiment, introduces Eliza to his mother in order to understand from her reaction whether the girl will be accepted in the world. There she is accidentally introduced to the Hill family. This is the same family that stood at the entrance to the theater on a rainy day.

Of course, they do not recognize that very dirty girl in a beautiful fashionable girl and carry on a conversation with her. At first Eliza talks like a real lady, and then, carried away, she begins to use familiar expressions and talks about her life. Everyone thought it was fashionable social slang. Mrs. Hill's daughter even tries to imitate Eliza's mannerisms, and her son, Freddie, falls in love with her.

After some time, friends introduce Eliza to high society, where she receives attention. Professor Higgins realizes that he has the upper hand in his bet.

When Eliza realized that she was taught, dressed up and taken out only for the sake of experience, she throws his own shoes at Higgins. He turned her life around, and didn’t even notice how she fell in love with him!

Eliza leaves the house, and Higgins feels completely lost without her.

Eliza's father, Mr. Dolittle, deserves special mention. He's just a scavenger, but he has very original ideas about morality. Just for fun, Higgins casually mentioned in a conversation with one of his millionaire friends that Mr. Dolittle was one of the most entertaining and original moralists in England.

The millionaire included Dolittle in his will with the condition that he would give lectures on morality and ethics. And now Dolittle has become rich, but has lost his freedom. He is forced to wear fashionable clothes, give lectures on morality and, most importantly, live by the onerous rules of decent society. Since the former garbage man gives lectures on morality and ethics, he himself will now have to tie the knot of family life with the woman with whom he previously lived just like that.

In the end, Eliza returns to Higgins, and the reader believes that the two will be happy.

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"Pygmalion"- one of Bernard Shaw's most famous plays, written in 1912

"Pygmalion" summary by chapters

First act

Summer showers gathered under the portico of Covent Garden's St. Pavel a motley company, including a poor street flower girl, an army colonel and a man with a notebook. The latter entertains himself and those around him by accurately guessing where someone is from and where else they have been. The colonel, becoming interested, finds out that in front of him is the famous phoneticist, Professor Henry Higgins - by the peculiarities of pronunciation, he is able to determine the origin of any Englishman.

It turns out that the colonel is himself a famous amateur linguist named Pickering, the author of the book “Spoken Sanskrit,” and he came to London specifically to meet the professor. Higgins has a very high opinion of Pickering's book, and the new friends are about to go to dinner at the colonel's hotel when the flower girl asks to buy something from her. Satisfied Higgins, without looking, throws a handful of coins into her basket and leaves with the colonel. The girl is shocked - according to her ideas, she has never had such huge money.

Second act

Higgins's flat in Wimpole Street, the next morning. Higgins demonstrates his recording equipment (phonograph) to Colonel Pickering. Mrs. Pierce, Higgins's housekeeper, reports that a girl came to see the professor. Yesterday's flower girl appears, introduces herself as Eliza Dolittle and asks to teach her the correct accent in order to get a job in a flower shop.

Higgins treats the situation as an absurd, albeit funny incident, but Pickering is sincerely touched and offers Higgins a bet. Let Higgins prove that he is truly the greatest specialist (as he boasted before) and in six months he can turn a street flower girl into a lady, and at a reception at the embassy he will successfully pass her off as a duchess. Pickering is also ready, if Higgins wins the bet, to pay the cost of Eliza's education. Higgins is unable to resist the challenge and agrees. Eliza, accompanied by Mrs. Pierce, goes into the bathroom.

After some time, Eliza's father, a garbage man, a drinker and a completely immoral type, comes to Higgins. He demands five pounds for non-interference, but otherwise he does not care about Eliza’s fate. Dolittle amazes the professor with his innate eloquence and convincing justification for his dishonesty, for which he receives his compensation. When clean Eliza appears in a Japanese robe, no one recognizes her.

Third act

Several months have passed. Eliza turned out to be a diligent and capable student, her pronunciation became almost perfect. Higgins wants to find out whether it is already possible to introduce a girl into secular society. As a first test, he brought Eliza to his mother's house on her receiving day. She is strictly instructed to touch only two topics: weather and health.

At the same time, the family of Mrs. Higgins' friend appears there - Mrs. Eynsford Hill with her daughter and son Freddie. At first, Eliza behaves impeccably and speaks in memorized phrases, but then she becomes inspired and switches to stories from her life experience, using vulgar and common expressions. Higgins, saving the day, reports that this is a new secular slang.

After Eliza and the other guests leave, Higgins and Pickering enthusiastically tell Mrs. Higgins about how they work with Eliza, take her to the opera, to exhibitions, and what funny remarks she makes after visiting exhibitions. Eliza, it turns out, has a phenomenal ear for music. Mrs. Higgins indignantly remarks that they are treating the girl like a living doll.

As a result of Eliza’s first appearance “into society,” Mrs. Higgins informs the professor: “She is a masterpiece of your art and the art of her dressmaker. But if you really don’t notice that she’s giving herself away with every phrase, then you’re just crazy.” The linguist friends leave home somewhat disappointed. Eliza's training continues, taking into account the mistakes made. Freddie, in love, bombards Eliza with ten-page letters.

Act Four

Several more months passed, and the moment of the decisive experiment arrived. Eliza, in a luxurious dress and - this time - with impeccable manners, appears at a reception at the embassy, ​​where she is a dizzying success. All the aristocrats present, without a shadow of a doubt, accept her as a duchess. Higgins won the bet.

Arriving home, Pickering congratulates Higgins on his success; none of them thinks to thank Eliza, who put in so much effort on her part. Eliza is irritated and worried. She can no longer lead her old life and doesn’t want to, and she doesn’t have the means for a new one. The contrast between the enchanting success at the reception and the neglect at home is too great.

When Higgins leaves and soon returns in search of slippers, Eliza explodes and throws her slippers at Higgins. She tries to explain the tragedy of her situation: “What am I good for? What have you prepared me for? Where will I go? What will happen next? What will happen to me? But Higgins is unable to understand someone else's soul. At night Eliza leaves Higgins' house

Fifth act

Mrs Higgins' house. Higgins and Pickering arrive and complain about Eliza's disappearance. Higgins admits that he feels like he has no hands without Eliza. He doesn’t know where his things are, or what he has scheduled for that day.

The servant reports the arrival of Eliza's father. Dolittle has changed a lot, now he looks like a wealthy bourgeois. He indignantly attacks Higgins for the fact that, through his fault, he had to change his usual way of life and, because of this, became much less free than before. It turns out that several months ago Higgins wrote to America to a millionaire philanthropist, the founder of the Moral Reform League, that the most original moralist in all of England was Alfred Dolittle, a simple scavenger. The millionaire had recently died, and in his will he left Dolittle three thousand pounds of annual income on the condition that Dolittle lecture at his League. Now he is a wealthy bourgeois and is forced, contrary to his convictions, to observe the canons of traditional morality. Today, for example, he officially marries his long-term partner.

Mrs. Higgins expresses relief that the father can now take care of his daughter and that Eliza's future is not in danger. She admits that Eliza is here in the upper room. Higgins, however, does not want to hear about “returning” Eliza to Dolittle.

Eliza appears. Everyone leaves her alone with Higgins, and a decisive explanation takes place between them. Higgins does not repent of anything, demands that Eliza return, and defends his right to unceremonious behavior. Eliza is not happy with this: “I want a kind word, attention. I know, I am a simple, dark girl, and you are a gentleman and a scientist; but still, I’m a person, and not an empty place.” Eliza reports that she has found a way to gain independence from Higgins: she will go to Professor Nepean, Higgins’ colleague, become his assistant and reveal to him the teaching method developed by Higgins.

Mrs. Higgins and the guests return. Higgins ostentatiously cheerfully instructs Eliza to buy cheese, gloves and a tie on the way home. Eliza contemptuously replies, “Buy it yourself,” and goes to her father’s wedding. The play ends with an open ending

George Bernard Shaw

"Pygmalion"

The play takes place in London. On a summer evening, the rain pours like buckets. Passers-by run to Covent Garden Market and the portico of St. Pavel, where several people have already taken refuge, including an elderly lady and her daughter, they are in evening dresses, waiting for Freddie, the lady’s son, to find a taxi and come for them. Everyone, except one person with a notebook, impatiently peers into the streams of rain. Freddie appears in the distance, having not found a taxi, and runs to the portico, but on the way he runs into a street flower girl, hurrying to hide from the rain, and knocks a basket of violets out of her hands. She bursts into abuse. A man with a notebook is hastily writing something down. The girl laments that her violets are missing and begs the colonel standing right there to buy a bouquet. To get rid of it, he gives her some change, but does not take flowers. One of the passers-by draws the attention of the flower girl, a sloppily dressed and unwashed girl, that the man with the notebook is clearly scribbling a denunciation on her. The girl begins to whine. He, however, assures that he is not from the police, and surprises everyone present by accurately determining the origin of each of them by their pronunciation.

Freddie's mother sends her son back to look for a taxi. Soon, however, the rain stops, and she and her daughter go to the bus stop. The Colonel shows interest in the abilities of the man with the notebook. He introduces himself as Henry Higgins, creator of the Higgins Universal Alphabet. The colonel turns out to be the author of the book “Spoken Sanskrit”. His name is Pickering. He lived in India for a long time and came to London specifically to meet Professor Higgins. The professor also always wanted to meet the colonel. They are about to go to dinner at the colonel’s hotel when the flower girl again starts asking to buy flowers from her. Higgins throws a handful of coins into her basket and leaves with the colonel. The flower girl sees that she now owns, by her standards, a huge sum. When Freddie arrives with the taxi he finally hailed, she gets into the car and, noisily slamming the door, drives off.

The next morning, Higgins demonstrates his phonographic equipment to Colonel Pickering at his home. Suddenly, Higgins's housekeeper, Mrs. Pierce, reports that a certain very simple girl wants to talk to the professor. Yesterday's flower girl enters. She introduces herself as Eliza Dolittle and says that she wants to take phonetics lessons from the professor, because with her pronunciation she cannot get a job. The day before she had heard that Higgins was giving such lessons. Eliza is sure that he will gladly agree to work off the money that yesterday, without looking, he threw into her basket. Of course, it’s funny for him to talk about such sums, but Pickering offers Higgins a bet. He encourages him to prove that in a matter of months he can, as he assured the day before, turn a street flower girl into a duchess. Higgins finds this offer tempting, especially since Pickering is ready, if Higgins wins, to pay the entire cost of Eliza's education. Mrs. Pierce takes Eliza to the bathroom to wash her.

After some time, Eliza's father comes to Higgins. He is a scavenger, a simple man, but he amazes the professor with his innate eloquence. Higgins asks Dolittle for permission to keep his daughter and gives him five pounds for it. When Eliza appears, already washed, in a Japanese robe, the father does not even recognize his daughter at first. A couple of months later, Higgins brings Eliza to his mother's house, just on her reception day. He wants to find out whether it is already possible to introduce a girl into secular society. Mrs. Eynsford Hill and her daughter and son are visiting Mrs. Higgins. These are the same people with whom Higgins stood under the portico of the cathedral on the day he first saw Eliza. However, they do not recognize the girl. Eliza at first behaves and talks like a high-society lady, and then goes on to talk about her life and uses such street expressions that everyone present is amazed. Higgins pretends that this is new social jargon, thus smoothing over the situation. Eliza leaves the crowd, leaving Freddie in complete delight.

After this meeting, he begins to send ten-page letters to Eliza. After the guests leave, Higgins and Pickering vying with each other, enthusiastically telling Mrs. Higgins about how they work with Eliza, how they teach her, take her to the opera, to exhibitions, and dress her. Mrs. Higgins finds that they are treating the girl like a living doll. She agrees with Mrs. Pearce, who believes that they "don't think about anything."

A few months later, both experimenters take Eliza to a high-society reception, where she is a dizzying success, everyone takes her for a duchess. Higgins wins the bet.

Arriving home, he enjoys the fact that the experiment, from which he was already tired, is finally over. He behaves and talks in his usual rude manner, not paying the slightest attention to Eliza. The girl looks very tired and sad, but at the same time she is dazzlingly beautiful. It is noticeable that irritation is accumulating in her.

She ends up throwing his shoes at Higgins. She wants to die. She doesn’t know what will happen to her next, how to live. After all, she became a completely different person. Higgins assures that everything will work out. She, however, manages to hurt him, throw him off balance and thereby at least a little revenge for herself.

At night, Eliza runs away from home. The next morning, Higgins and Pickering lose their heads when they see that Eliza is gone. They are even trying to find her with the help of the police. Higgins feels like he has no hands without Eliza. He doesn’t know where his things are, or what he has scheduled for the day. Mrs Higgins arrives. Then they report the arrival of Eliza's father. Dolittle has changed a lot. Now he looks like a wealthy bourgeois. He lashes out at Higgins indignantly because it is his fault that he had to change his lifestyle and now become much less free than he was before. It turns out that several months ago Higgins wrote to a millionaire in America, who founded branches of the League of Moral Reforms all over the world, that Dolittle, a simple scavenger, is now the most original moralist in all of England. He died, and before his death he bequeathed to Dolittle a share in his trust for three thousand annual income, on the condition that Dolittle would give up to six lectures a year in his League of Moral Reforms. He laments that today, for example, he even has to officially marry someone with whom he has lived for several years without registering a relationship. And all this because he is now forced to look like a respectable bourgeois. Mrs. Higgins is very happy that the father can finally take care of his changed daughter as she deserves. Higgins, however, does not want to hear about “returning” Eliza to Dolittle.

Mrs. Higgins says she knows where Eliza is. The girl agrees to return if Higgins asks her for forgiveness. Higgins does not agree to do this. Eliza enters. She expresses gratitude to Pickering for his treatment of her as a noble lady. It was he who helped Eliza change, despite the fact that she had to live in the house of the rude, slovenly and ill-mannered Higgins. Higgins is amazed. Eliza adds that if he continues to “pressure” her, she will go to Professor Nepean, Higgins’ colleague, and become his assistant and inform him of all the discoveries made by Higgins. After an outburst of indignation, the professor finds that now her behavior is even better and more dignified than when she looked after his things and brought him slippers. Now, he is sure, they will be able to live together not just as two men and one stupid girl, but as “three friendly old bachelors.”

Eliza goes to her father's wedding. Apparently, she will still live in Higgins’ house, since she has become attached to him, just as he has become attached to her, and everything will continue as before.

On a summer day, townspeople, fleeing the downpour, hide under the portico of St. Paul's Cathedral. Higgins watches the assembled neighbors in misfortune, making notes in a notebook. He wrote the book Higgins Universal Alphabet. Colonel Pickering, the creator of the book “Spoken Sanskrit,” became interested in this man and they met. The gentlemen decided to have dinner at the hotel. Along the way, Higgins threw a handful of change to the girl selling violets.

The next morning, Higgins hosted Pickering at his home and a violet merchant comes there asking him to give her phonetics lessons so that she can get a decent job. Pickering and Higgins make a bet that the latter will turn the merchant into a duchess in a matter of months. And if Higgins can do this, then Pickering will pay all the costs of the Merchant.

This is how Eliza achieves her desire to learn. For two months the girl lives in Higgins's house and he works hard with her. He brings her to his mother, who is giving a reception, to understand whether there is any result from his labors. Eliza behaves like a society lady, but when talking about her former life, she switches to street slang. Higgins saves the day by presenting this jargon as a modern secular trend. His pupil left her mother's guests completely delighted.

One of the guests at Freddie's reception is so captivated by the girl that he writes ten-page letters to her. A few more months later, Higgins and Pickering take their ward to a high society reception. And there she was considered a duchess. Pickering lost the argument. But now Eliza is sad. She has changed and does not understand what to do next. Higgins assures that everything will work out, but does so in his usual rude manner. Eliza throws her shoes at Higgins and goes to her room.

In the morning, Higgins and Pickering discovered that Eliza was missing. Higgins is so used to Eliza that he cannot imagine life without her, he does not know where his things are or what activities are planned for the day. Eliza took on the duties of a personal assistant. He tries to find it by contacting the police. Higgins is visited by Eliza's father. He was previously a simple scavenger, but now he has become a bourgeois. He wrote to the American millionaire, the organizer of the League of Moral Reforms, and he, dying, left Dullittle a share, on condition that he began to lecture at the League. And now Dolittle can support his daughter himself, but Higgins doesn’t even want to hear about it.

Soon Eliza returns and she tells Higgins that he must apologize to her and continue to treat her more politely, otherwise she will become an assistant to his competitor Nepean. Higgins is pleased with the girl and the manners that he instilled in her and now she can live in his house and be on an equal footing with him.

Bernard Shaw's work "Pygmalion" tells the reader about how people's lives change thanks to education. Characters: Eliza Dolittle, poor flower girl; her father, a garbage man; Colonel Pickering; young man - scientist Henry Higgins; Mrs. Hill with her daughter and son Freddie. Events take place in London.
... On a summer evening, it rains like buckets. People run to the portico of the church, hoping to hide there from the rain. Among them are an elderly lady, Mrs. Hill and her daughter. The lady's son, Freddie, runs to look for a taxi, but on the way he bumps into a young girl, street flower girl Eliza Doolittle. He knocks the basket of violets out of her hands. The girl scolds loudly. A man writes down her words in a notebook. Someone says that this man is a police informer. It is later revealed that the man with the notebook is Henry Hingins, the author of the Higgins Universal Alphabet. Hearing this, one of those standing near the church, Colonel Pickering, becomes interested in Hingins’ identity. He had wanted to meet Hingins for a very long time, since he himself is interested in linguistics. At the same time, the flower girl continues to lament the flowers that have fallen to the ground. Higgins throws a handful of coins into her basket and leaves with the Colonel. The girl is sincerely happy - by her standards, she now has a huge fortune.
The next morning, Higgins demonstrates his phonographic equipment to Colonel Pickering at his home. The housekeeper reports that a “very simple girl” wants to talk to the professor. Eliza Doolittle appears. She wants to take phonetics lessons from the professor because her pronunciation is preventing her from getting a job. Higgins wants to refuse, but the colonel offers a bet. If Higgins can “turn a street flower girl into a duchess” in a few months, then Pickernig will pay for her entire education. This offer seems very tempting to Higgins, and he agrees.
Two months pass. Higgins brings Eliza Dolittle to his mother's house. He wants to find out whether it is already possible to introduce a girl into secular society. The Hill family is visiting Higgins' mother, but no one recognizes the flower girl who came. The girl at first talks like a high society lady, but then switches to street slang. The guests are surprised, but Higgins manages to smooth the situation over: he says that this is a new secular jargon. Eliza causes complete delight among those gathered.
A few months later, both experimenters take the girl to a high society reception. Eliza is a dizzying success there. Thus, Higgins wins the bet. Now he doesn’t even pay attention to Eliza, which irritates her. She throws her shoes at him. The girl feels that her life has no meaning. At night she runs away from Higgins' house.
The next morning, Higgins discovers that Eliza is not there and tries to find her with the help of the police. Without Eliza, Higgins is “like without hands”: he can’t find where his things are, what day to schedule things for. Higgins' mother knows she can be found. The girl agrees to return if Higgins asks her for forgiveness.
As a result, Eliza Dolittle returns to the Higgins house, and now she is not considered a stupid girl, but is valued and respected as a person.
This is how B. Shaw’s work “Pygmalion” ends.