Title: Comparative essay on G. B. Shaw's Pygmalion and the film My fair lady
             Comparative essay on G. B. Shaw's Pygmalion and the film My fair lady
             Comparative essay on G. B. Shaw' s Pygmalion and the film 'My fair lady' Shaw wrote his play Pygmalion in 1913, while My fair lady, the cinema adaptation was filmed in 1964. Although the basic line of events remained the same, there are a number of differences that can be observed between the two works. The play takes place in London, sometime around 1900. The main characters are introduced in the starting scene: Eliza, the poor flower girl, Mrs. Eynsford Hill with his son, Freddy, Mr. Henry Higgins, a professor of phonetics and Colonel Pickering, another fan of linguistics all meet in front of St. Paul's cathedral, driven there for shelter from the rain. It turns out that Pickering and Higgins are looking forward to get to know each other for a long time, and now the professor invites the colonel to live with him. The plot then continues with the flower girl turning up at their home the next day, asking the Higgins to teach her proper English talk The two consider it a good opportunity to have fun and decide to make a bet, on whether Eliza can be passed off as a duchess in 6 months or not.. So she stays, and gradually, not without difficulties, gets used to live and speak like a lady. During their first attempt, at Higgins mother's at-home, Eliza proves to be still unprepared: her speech is already presentable but her manners are not. However, the next time, at an ambassador's party she plays her role so well that a foreign linguist believes her to be a Hungarian princess. Now everyone shall be happy but as soon as they get home from the party, all of her grieve bursts out of Eliza: she start to complain about Henry's treatment, which ends with Eliza wishing that he would have left her where he found her. After Higgins goes
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