okay hi everybody let's go ahead and get started make sure you have your copy of pigmon and your um highlighters please and make sure that you're still arriving five minutes early because you missed the entire warmup when you just get here um and we're working on vocabulary since you guys aren't doing your digital vocabulary notebooks now that you're doing research and more challenging literature so we want to keep this up because it's important to continue to to develop your vocabulary so as we're talking about these words I not only want you to begin to make them part of your written and your spoken vocabulary try these words out experiment with them but I also want you to think about how they relate to the characters in pigmon who do they describe do they describe a particular character or a scene so let's get into this so um write the whole word down in your vocabulary section of your notebook don't just write the letter that doesn't do you any good that doesn't help you learn the words um and you could see some of these later so you want to make sure that you are paying attention and that you know these words okay okay so unwarrantedly bold Anderly forward what did you guys get for number one Joanna uh I got presumptuous presumptuous yeah presumptuous and what does um who is a character that is presumptuous in um pigmon L um I think Higgins is presumptuous okay can you you always got to tell me why oh it's because of the way he acts he doesn't really think before he speaks he's very he's not abrasive exactly he just doesn't he doesn't seem to care if he hurts someone's feelings exactly yeah very true good anyone else agree about Higgins or have any other comments or see another character who's presumptuous how does he what is an example of him not caring about feelings Evan okay quickly quickly you're unmuted you haven't said anything have you said anything he said in the chat okay Jack in the chat Jack attitude okay his mic's not working he said I can see the chat sweti him okay um Evan I haven't heard you speak yet though like can you speak is it let's test it out say something okay okay all right yeah I didn't think that you had said anything as why I'm questioning so I was like wait well let's test it out before we just assume it's not working okay yeah you can put your answer in the chat if you want anybody else have anyone to share about presumptuous how Higgins is presumptuous okay I'll call on you then um and Bradley you need to turn on your camera please um Sienna what do you think who's presumption work now sorry can you hear me yeah okay go ahead and then sorry um an example of Higgins being presumptuous and not like caring about anyone's feelings is when um just him and Eliza he treats her more as an object then and he treats her more as an object than an actual person and he has de regard for her feelings and he treats her like a project and not like a human being if that makes sense exactly he does now it totally makes sense you you are exactly right he he treats her like he even says she says that treats me like a doll um instead of an in an object does he make presumption presumptions about um um class people in different classes do you think he's presumptuous about um social status Sienna you want to address that please well he used to call Eliza a gutter snipe so that was kind of derogatory exactly so what does that tell us about him like he's disgusted by the lower class and how they don't speak well Act okay good I'm responding okay I'm sorry you've been sick Bradley I thought you were doing better okay there's AJ we got lots of people coming on late today so hold on let me take attendance and look at all the chats and all the things y'all are telling me okay um all right let's go on to number two then insincere conventional Expressions now this isn't archaic word it's a word that we don't use much anymore but you know as one of my students said in the other section of this class it's kind of fun to use words that we don't use anymore maybe bring them back you guys invent words all the time in your generation so why not bring back some of the oldies but goodies so what did you guys get for number two Trent what did you get um I'm not sure if it's right but I got consorts or yes I did okay so what does consorts mean um how man I cannot speak today I understand I have days like that to I have I can't think so I get it yeah okay go ahead so what's consorts uh Habit habitually associate with someone typically with the disapproval of others okay so associating with someone who is disapproving so that's like consorting with is like joining in with so I'm not sure if that's quite the same as insincere but that's okay that's okay we're learning did somebody get something different JD I got K yes K is right yeah C an we use it as um a um with an apostrophe as a contraction today don't we without so this is can't without the apostrophe yeah meaning meaning insincere um who is insincere in pigmon who would be Kent whose behavior is Kent Elana Higgins uhuh how is his behavior can't um because he's like kind of lying to Eliza and like just using her for his experiment or whatever he's like claiming he's going to make her like he doesn't really care about what happens to her afterwards he's just treating her as an experiment exactly yeah um okay and then um we're gonna talk about that in a minute if you guys think it's um that he's very arrogant and insincere or if there's something else going on so be thinking about Higgins and we're going to do a deep dive okay what about number three politeness manners and dignity did you guys get on that one Jane Bell um decorum decorum yes who has decorum and pigmon um I would say that Mrs Higgins does definitely who would be the opposite of decorum everybody Eliza yes said to some degree yes she does because she doesn't know any better exactly yes good Jack okay what about number four apart or separated what' you guys get on that one Autumn did you get that one um I was gonna say e a sun yeah that's right so I always think about that it's in it's in wedding vows that no one should put aunder right so it's separate apart very good um pleading and protest objecting expostulating what is this one L remonstrating yeah remonstrating very good who does a lot of remonstrating in pigmon pleading objecting Eliza maybe yeah Eliza does yeah and we know it's because of her past she does a lot of that like screaming and like objecting to things and objecting to being treat mistreated and we know that's because why she's used to being thrown out right like her father and her stepmother did is that being kicked at the curb thrown out like trash and here she is in another situation that you've read now the whole play um where you know she feels not valued she attends the balls she attends these cele and she sees how other men treat women and how they look at you know their and women and treat them and Elevate them in society and she is still being told to go get the slippers from Professor Higgins so she begins to realize that although she loves the fellowship and and and the the habit of being able to be with um Pickering and Higgins every day that it's not worth the verbal abuse that he is never going to change so um yeah so she press she um remonstrates a lot she protests a lot she realizes this is not right this is not how I should be treated because what's the difference between a lady and a flower girl this is one of your questions that you're answering this week what's the difference JD how she's treated exactly you said it beautifully how she's treated and um remember she just and that's part of what Shaw wants us to remember is it's not so much about social class is it's about treating everyone kindly no matter where you come from and so he makes fun of how we're so snobby about language were so um particular about how people dress you know and and how people speak and and and act and the things that they say or don't know okay number six bad Beyond reform yeah JD was saying it should be bad Beyond correction yes I think you're right or reform so what would that one JD go ahead and do number six for us encourageable yes very very good D incourage yes Beyond reform who might be encourageable in pigmon maybe Higgins maybe but there's somebody else that might be even more incorrigible Mr dittle yeah Alfred dittle he is it doesn't matter what social class you put him in he is going to be a con artist no matter what he is pretty much not going to reform or change he doesn't want to he complains about um having middle class morality he doesn't want to have to reform to middle class um ways yes L he's even said that he's kind of he's almost proud of the way he is he doesn't want to change he's he's almost happy with it yeah I mean it's kind of a good and a bad thing right like he's content wherever he is but yet he also doesn't see the need for self-improvement yeah exactly all right number seven to lower indignity or debate to debate someone um AJ Dean deman yes deman we see that with Higgins calling her gutter snipe for sure um even the way um oh her name just went out the girl Claire is it Claire Clara Clara Clara Clara she the way she talks to Freddy at the beginning right right and the way the mom talks to him about getting the cab it's demeaning okay and then number eight generous um and forgiving and insult Noble Sienna magnimus magnanimous magnanimous good um and that's usually associated with someone who gives generously to the poor they might do a lot of um you know um work like you know work they're giving things away a lot of um what's the word I can't think of the word but it's where they're doing a lot of um you know things to to make money to give to to people who are less fortunate or her need things I I put vindictive because I was thinking of vicarious instead oh now vindictive would mean totally opposite look at vindictive yeah vicarius would have been right though yeah vicarious means you're kind of living alongside with like joining in like you're doing something maybe I don't know I don't think that quite fits it either but I I see your um point there excessive emphasis on profit everybody is what yell it out everybody commercialism commercialism yes and number 10 a person in Authority who exercises power oppressively everybody you should know this one what's this one pant Tyrant very good Tyrant yeah exactly good all right were there any words that you particularly liked that you think you might try out this week maybe you like the way they sound or what they mean Elana what will you use this week I like can't you do why do you like that one why did that one stand out to you I think cuz it like it sounds like At first I thought that like is this like a a typo did they miss the apostrophe but then I realized that like it was like a different meaning and like I just I just like how it like sounds like a normal word but it's like kind of like a little like um almost demeaning I don't know yeah yeah that's what somebody said um okay so Jack we're not going to comment we're not doing the right now okay um so it's almost like somebody was saying um in the other class that they liked you know to say words that we don't use good another one anyone else you might want to use well pick one you don't have to tell me if you don't want to share it right now but um te pick one that you just might want to insert into your writing this week or into your um daily you know SP spoken vocabulary try them out experiment with the words yeah AJ he said you have to pronounce it with a British accent K yes all right all right good job guys okay so let's take a little recap here yes I like magnanimous um it's fun to it's nice to be magnanimous too um so in act four we see that the uh that's okay the Masterpiece is complete if we're um you know applying this to if we're comparing this to the analogy of the myth of pigmon and galatea then this is the part in the play where the Masterpiece is complete Eliza has been transformed from a flower girl to a lady of high society and you can see there in her picture there so let's take a little uh review back since you read both act four and five this week and just make sure you didn't miss any highlights and then we can go over the questions if you have any um about this week they're pretty straightforward though so let's review adjust your volume what happened in act I took two things that I love dancing and dogs and I made them into a successful business [Music] in act four of pigmon it's midnight and Eliza Higgins and Pickering are returning to wimple Street after the successful final test of Eliza's skills at home complaining that he cannot find his slippers he takes no notice when Eliza finds and places them before him and continues to sound off about the party he's glad it's over and labels the whole experiment as a bore and simple Purgatory when Higgins and Pickering leave the room Eliza burst into tears so there we see right there he is he's going on and on about his experiment and that it was a bore to him and that it was it was like being in purgatory it was you know hellacious he was it was awful it was torment for him and you know he's not considering the fact that he's speaking about um yes AJ um a human you know she was impacted by this she was more more than just an experiment and she says you know you guys are my only friends and yet this is how they're treating her now we have to remember that Eliza doesn't have a great role model of a father we don't know where her mother is right we know she might have a stepmother sort of but there was no real mother figure her father kicked her out and now she's being like you know treated the same way she kind of is going to the same same type of you know seeking after the same type of man relationship and I don't necessarily mean romantic but you know she is she doesn't know how a man should treat her until she gets into the high society and realizes like I said how others treat their women and um and what is you know the proper decorum and he just never gets it and so that's why she's so upset El says Higgins cares more about how he feels and about ging for him and then Eliza exactly exactly she has just seen as an experiment all right of Rage moments later Higgin returns once more searching for his slippers and she throws them at him with all her strength she has won his bed for him and now he has no more use for her Higgins attempts to persuade her that she is tired and suffering from a case of nerves she's now free and can do what she likes gradually he understands that she has no idea what she is fit for or what will become of her He clumsily suggests that she could find a rich manary who will take care of her a solution Eliza rejects refusing so you remember that in that time period the Victorian error that would have been the thing to do you know he's suggesting that she just get married and that will solve all of her problems and then she can just be in High Society because she has the demeanor now she has the um the skills the social skills but she doesn't have the means she doesn't have the money to have all these outfits and to um be in high society and attend parties and live in a fancy house and also have you guys thought about the fact that this is um like super just um it's all like a charade because think about if she was at a dinner party for a long period of time would she be able to carry on and have a deep discussion about anything beyond like the weather and the few topics that they've given her right like eventually she's going to be found out right so yeah and so like Mrs Pierce was warning and Mrs Higgins were warning um um uh Higgins of this consequences what's to become of her and he says we'll just go get married well um you know that's not what she wanted to do she wanted she wanted her independence she wanted to open a flower shop and maybe if this play was okay bye Jane Bell I maybe if this play was written in more Modern Times And we had like you know after women's Liberation that it would have been different it would have been more acceptable for her to go and get an education and and go out on her own without a husband but that was the answer for this time period even though as AJ says Miss Pierce she's not married she has a job so there were instances and then um also um higgins's Mom we don't know what happened to higgins's Dad which isn't an interesting that Higgins doesn't have a father figure and Eliza's Father Figure is messed up and he does and she doesn't have a mother figure but so interesting there thinking about why both of them act the way they do things to consider Ponder to take the problem seriously Higgin starts off for bed he stops when Eliza quietly asks who her clothes belong to she wants to know what she can take with her as she doesn't want to be accused of stealing she hands him the jewels he rented for her along with the ring he bought her she tells him she doesn't want the ring anymore dashing the ring into the fireplace Higgin storms out and slams the door in the morning Eliza decides to visit Mrs Higgins and ask her advice about what she should do in this act the evening success is the culmination of all Eliza and Higgins have worked to achieve yet the turning point in the play occurs after the victory Eliza's months of tireless study and fine performance were a success but they go on acknowledged by Higgins and are barely touched upon by Pickering the professor still sees aive Ela merely as a way of proving his theory about language and his genius as a teacher but that's not how Eliza feels angry and okay so do you agree with that guys do you think he just sees himself as that it's his geniusness as a teacher do you think it's an ego trip what do you guys think Al what do you think I think it I think it is definitely an ego trip it's he doesn't really care about helping Eliza it's more of him trying to see if he can um succeed with his experiment or whatever he wants to call it it's yeah he doesn't seem to care about Eliza as a person he seems to care about how the experiment goes and how how he is as a teacher so do you guys think he's egotistical do you think it's all ego driven or it's something else why does he act the way he does what do y'all think what what's his motivation Joanna I think it's because like originally he wanted to do this just because like he could be the best teacher in the world so that's like like driven by his ego because um the only reason why he basically wants to do this is so that he can get famous and like um get like the attention that he wants yeah good okay okay do you all agree with Joanna or do you think there's something else motivating him other than egotism what do y'all think and on that same line as you're thinking about that is he like pigmon in the myth was pigmon in the myth motivated by pure egotism remember we talked about the it was all about love of self so are they similar in that way that's one of your questions this week too are pigmon and Professor Higgin similar in that way okay go ahead and raise your hand and ask me and let's not chat so um L is answering that's great who else what else do you guys think Ava what do you think I'm sorry I cut out did you say my name yeah so is this motivated on ego how is he like Pig m in the myth um well comparing him to pigmon in the myth pigmon um kind of like falls in love with galaa because Gala is like perfect like to his standards like he he made her and so like and also he is just so self-centered like he sees like oh I did such a good job and he's just like so proud of himself and Higgins um is similar to that because he is like he's trying to make Eliza like perfect and he's like trying to like prove his genius and like that he like his expertise at phonetics and so I definitely see a similarity okay right thanks not how Eliza feels angry and frustrated she thinks Higgins has no further use for her and will abandon her throwing her into the street just as her father and stepmother had done she has had a taste of Life as a lady and acquired all the necessary attributes her dreams have grown Beyond merely working in a flower shop Higgins has viewed Eliza as his creation and he has imposed only superficial changes like did you guys catch that's that's what I was talking about the superficial changes it's not real she wouldn't be able to sustain this long term because she doesn't share the same background experiences of people in the um upper class she doesn't have the same education she doesn't know the subject matters to discuss right um so it's very superficial and so now she's left with what am I supposed to do do language clothing and manners upon her so this is satirical right he's writing a satire here so what is he saying about us what is he saying about um Society Victorian society when we think that we can just change clothes and the way we speak and make these superficial changes what is sha saying what is he poking fun of and hoping that we'll change I can sit here too guys you're going to have to discuss that's what this class is about so what do you guys think what is the satirical message what do you think Shaw is trying to teach us maybe about like social class and how like like treating everyone equally I guess I don't I don't really know okay yeah definitely good other thoughts AJ the person's always going to be having like being like similar to like their old self for example in Act five when Eliza she goes back and to her old ways when she's like screaming like in like act one like the same way so it feels like even if you change the person that that Masterpiece is complete they're still part of their old self so like Sha's saying that you can't really fully change a person okay do you guys agree with that good AJ good thinking do you guys agree with that do you think that the close make the man do you think that clothes in language did change her or do we see that it didn't change her she reverted back as AJ said what do you guys think um Siena what were you going to say and then we can address that I was going to say that the message is kind of like people always want what they don't have because the lower class people that are poor and on the streets selling things they always want to be perfect like the upper classes with fancy houses and rides to go everywhere but then Eliza is talking about how she wishes her life was as easy as when she was in the lower class because now she's held to a high standard that she can't live up to exactly exactly and that sounds like an echo of her father as well he's like I don't want these um this middle class morality I don't want to have to um you know act a certain way or behave a certain way just because I'm you know have money so again Shaw's also saying that money maybe money isn't as significant I don't know what do y'all think Patrick what were you gonna add uh I was gonna say that I think he's trying to say that um you can't like just bring someone from a lower class like teach them all the things that would be traditional and expect them to know actually know how to act realistically in higher Society because she maybe she knows talking points but then when you try and talk about your family she does she wouldn't know anything it would the only realistical way for her to actually fit in is if she like did something that would make her become like richer or something right like she would have something to talk about exactly good so we see we've talked about like um the thank you guys for participating we we see we talked about how Higgins is like pigmon this the in the myth but how is Liza Liza like galetea and how is she different so I want you to think about like a VIN diagram okay so what are some similarities and some differences um and and I and why you're thinking about that because one of your questions is about their similarities um at the end of act four she smiles for the first time why is she smiling and what does that tell us about her transformation and how she's different from Gala so somebody address that that was a lot of questions at once wasn't it Elana what do you think I guess like El is's smiling kind of shows that she had like a little bit of power to like rile up and she like also she wasn't like kind of like compliant with like the whole thing of like being made to the perfect thing but like Gala just kind of was like all happy and thankful it's like oh okay and we can get married it was like a happy ending for them but then like for Eliza it was a lot more like Eliza was a lot more human obviously than Gala because she like wanted Revenge she wanted to like R him up make him annoyed I guess okay why does she want to make him annoyed though because what is her ultimate goal why is she smiling what does she ultimately want maybe like she has like some power over him or something I don't really know okay okay good thoughts what else do you think she might want she wants to feel powerful what else uh Joanna um I think uh he was smiling cuz she wants to get revenge from Higgins because like she feels like that Higgins has treated her badly and um because of that she wants to like maybe like make him um think or like change his behavior in some way that like he would treat her better and then like by arguing like against him like I think she has like Alana say like some source of power over him because she actually made him like feel bad about himself okay do you think it changed him at all do you think he felt badly about himself do you think he was getting the message I don't think so either I mean I think she was sort of trying to do yeah to manipulate you know to say this is how you made me feel so I'm going to make you feel this way but it didn't work on him he's very much what you would call a narcissistic personality right he's very self-absorbed and doesn't seem to even hear criticism um what about independent though does Eliza want independence versus Gala what do you think about that this Independence plan she wants to be free from the lower class but now she even wants to be free from her current situation what's her situation with L go ahead wants to be free from I think she wants to I don't think she wants to be tied to Higgins or Pickering anymore I think she just wants to be free to be a lady I guess but I don't think that's really that's not really in her situation it doesn't seem very probable yeah I mean I think from what we see in act one that she likes to be able to have the money and have the cab and have the the um the nice things in life the conveniences that the upper class have because of money right instead of having to walk everywhere or live on the street you know she likes being able to take a bath and wear clean clothes and and so you know I think she enjoys that but she still wants the freedom she's maybe more like her father than she realizes you know maybe there's some influence there what do you guys think he doesn't want to have to change his ways and we're seeing that in El Li says well she doesn't really want to change her ways either even though she says she does but it's really more about independence for both of them H what to ponder that okay well let's take a look at Act five now as we wrap things up and I want you to think about is Eliza better off What Becomes of her which sha tells us about in his epilogue which I'm GNA kind of summarize for you today um so what happens in Act five um are were you surprised and is she really better off so think about that it's not a romantic ending is [Music] it big ideas [Music] in Act five of pigmalion the next day Mrs Higgins is in her drawing room when the Parlor maid announces that Higgins and Pickering are downstairs phoning the police about Eliza's disappearance Mrs Higgins sends the Parlor made upstairs where Eliza has taken shelter to tell Eliza to wait there until she is sent for Mrs Higgins chastises her son and Pickering for their thoughtless treatment of the girl but the arrival of Alfred dittle cuts the scolding short he enters dressed as a bridegroom in the height of fashion and in a highly agitated State and immediately accosts Higgins D little explains that higgins's offhand remark in a letter to a rich gentleman has delivered him into the hands of middle class morality okay this is funny I don't want you to miss this so I again we see Shaw's wit in this and um so what happens how does Alfred D little come into money what what's the scenario there and why is it humorous what has Higgins done you said you want us to miss it by accident no I don't think it did but whatever uh haha that's funny Jack let's answer the question though I'm sorry come on guys you guys are did you not read because you guys are not talking today so what is now I don't remember the question what is the how does Alfred D little come into money it's right on the tip of my brain I can't remember it's it's like right there okay well grab your book and look it up it's cuz Higgin sent a letter to somebody rich and AJ you want to fill in the blanks so Higgins he sent a letter to a rich gentleman and as a joke he said Alfred D little was one of like the best like writers so then after that the gentleman like thought that that was not a joke and that was actually true so he sent a lot of money to offra doitt so now he's in middle class morality exactly this shows very good thank you AJ it shows Professor higgins's like nasty sense of humor first of all because he's you know joking around and he's making fun of Alfred dittle and then it turns out that he actually does win the money he is given he's it's basically like winning the lottery and so now he's like forced into to you know middle class morality and he's complaining about it because he was happy where he was I mean he can actually be content and be a con artist in any of the social classes that he wanted to be in but he's coming in and yelling at Higgins for changing his life so he doesn't care so much about the money because he's able to get by by conning people Eliza wants the money to have the independence but again we see Shaw's wit here he's being funny about you know how cruel Higgins is okay let's keep watching and how we are treating people again sometimes when you treat people things don't happen as you expect so we've got irony here for sure the gentleman died and left Alfred dittle A Generous yearly pension now his Happy Days Are Over as one of the undeserving poor Mrs Higgins reveals that Eliza is upstairs Mrs Higgins again reproach purchas her son and Pickering for their callous conduct the night before Eliza enters looking cooly self-possessed and politely greets the two men she thanks Pickering for treating her well and showing her respect higgins's arrogant ill-mannered reaction to this prompts Alfred to make his presence known to Eliza after an awkward moment she agrees to come along to see him married for a few moments before leaving Eliza and Higgins are left alone Higgins Tred tries to convince her that he did not treat her any differently from anyone else that he treats everyone rudely and then softens a bit and tells her that he will miss her if she leaves knowing Higgins will never change Eliza hints that she may marry Freddy and support them both by teaching phonetics possibly as an assistant to a Ral of Higgins so she's given it back to him she's learned how to trigger him and push his button she's like well maybe we I'll become a teacher of ICS and use the techniques that you taught me but he she drops the hint in there that she's going to marry Freddy she's just joking but that in fact is what um George Bernard Shaw says happens in the epilogue so we'll get to that in a minute outraged Higgins grabs her and threatens to ring her neck if she does he sees something in Eliza that he has overlooked until now Eliza is a tower of strength a consort Battleship and the play closes Eliza seems set on a path away from Higgins but Higgins remains cheerfully confident that she will return to wimple Street and continue to be part of his life so he thinks she'll return she is all about independence she's strong she's a strong independent woman and which is interesting because when you compare it with the analogy of the statue in the myth you know the St statue is strong and solid and could stand on its own right right but yet as soon as it becomes human it marries him it just like there's no other choice for the statue for galatea whereas Eliza says there are other choices for me I don't have to stay here and take this I can figure things out on my own a plays resolution or danuma usually ties up all the loose plot threads and answers any lingering questions but the question of Eliza's future is left unanswered Eliza declares her independence from Higgins says goodbye for the last time and sweeps out of the room yet Higgins is confident that she will return the resolution then is left up to audience members and depends upon their interpretation of events the Final Act also raises a fresh question now that she is a lady is Eliza really better off okay so that's my question for you guys now that she has entered an upper class is she really better off what do you guys think I think she's not sorry for not raising my hand that's okay go I think she's I mean I just kind of came up with this just now but I think she's not better off or worse off it's not any different how bad I mean how bad Higgins has been is kind of uh yeah I see your point so is she able to going back kind of balance with how nice everybody else has been sorry you cut out what yeah yeah yeah okay no I like I like what you're saying there I think that's interesting so do you think she can go back to being a flower girl yeah I mean I don't see why not probably be a better flower girl okay maybe she would have some more uh means of selling more flowers maybe know she's learned from from pagin um okay Ava what do you think she even says in the book that she doesn't think that she could go back to being a flower girl that like she has been taught like how to speak properly and that she doesn't she says she doesn't think she could make one of the noises that she didn't act one yeah but I mean could she still sell flowers to make money I mean like do you think I mean it's why why does she think she can't go back to that is there anything really stopping her I mean she thinks she can't go back but could she Evan what do you think well I think so I think she could go back to being a flower girl but I don't think she would be I think she would be better off as a lady actually she could do either one but she wouldn't be better off or worse off it would be about the same okay yeah I like what this one critic says I think he puts it well on this you guys might consider this is once ditt has had her makeover she's kind of stuck between two worlds Eliza unable to return to selling flowers in the street she also doesn't belong in the High Society she has learned to mimic again see the facade she rejects higgins's paternalism his father-like treatment again treating her the same way her father did and Strikes Out on her own she has become both pigan and galetea because she's chosen to Fashion herself she's shaped she sculpted herself hasn't she so she's really kind of symbolic of both Pig Mia and galatea isn't that interesting do you guys agree with that how is she like both while yall are thinking about that I'm going to let L and Eliana they had their hands raised go ahead Al oh um I was gonna answer the question about whether Eliza was better off or not is that can I still answer that y yeah yeah okay I was going to say I think she's better off and I think she could technically go back to being a flower girl but I don't think she she wouldn't want to and she I don't think she I don't think she would be able to but technically she could but she wouldn't I don't think she would allow herself to do that is what I'm trying to say okay I think that's the key right there I think you hit the nail on the head she wouldn't allow herself to go back down to where she had been yes I think that's it she wouldn't lower herself good point she's had a taste of high society and knows what she's capable of knows that you know he treats her like she's dumb but she was able to learn all of that and speak that way and um in such a short period of time she's actually very intelligent so think what she could do Elana what do you think I think that like like everyone else saying I think that she could like technically go back to being a flower girl but like I think that honestly she like would have a lot of difficulty doing that because she's had like like you said she's had a taste of high society and she's like she's felt like the luxury in everything so it would be a lot more difficult cuz previously she was like kind of like she wasn't like content where she was but she was she hadn't like really felt and understood like the luxury of like um High Society so she was actually kind of like okay being a flower girl but I think that going to like being like very dirty and not clean and everything after 6 months of living like a lady would be like really difficult for her mentally so I don't think she would be able to like go back to being a Flor girl very easily also because of like um but I think that because of how she talks like she knows how to talk with a better accent now um she could like learn to become more ladylike so I think she would lean towards more staying in High Society like I feel like once she had a taste she has to kind of like she's gonna start going there oops right yeah yeah well remember that Shaw's whole point I told you this from the very beginning the first week we started reading this is that he didn't want to write a romance novel and that Hollywood romanticized it um and so the epilogue um which I told you you didn't have to read yet um is that is his answer his response to Hollywood and Broadway making this more romantic he says that they didn't need to fall in love that wasn't the point of this remember he wants to be an advocate for social class for treating people kindly for women's rights right um in the British social system so it's a satire he didn't want it to be a romance so in the end um in the epilogue if you'll turn there which is called the rest of the story after Act five um he writes this in response and I love how he says that you can see his his irritated tone coming through and how everyone has changed his play he says the rest of the story need not be shown in action and indeed would hardly need telling if our imaginations were not so enfeebled by their lazy dependence on the readymades and reach me downs of Rag Shop in which romance keeps its stock of Happy Endings to Misfit all stories he says we like the Hallmark movies we like the romance and that's what sells in Hollywood and on Broadway but he said that's not what my point was right he's saying it's lazy um you know is that we have to have these Happy Endings and life isn't always about happy endings and so that's why he has this twist ending on in it and it says it's not going to turn out the way you think so he says okay but I'll go ahead and give you an answer anyway since you all want to know what happens to these characters um and you're doing it wrong basically in Hollywood and Broadway so he Del he goes on and and the whole epilogue is basically a huge rant then um you can just read it quickly this week you don't have to like dig in and read it it's not going to be on your test but I would like put on the audio version which I'll put in the announcements and listen to it as you're you know doing chores or something or doing something in the house just so you can kind of hear his rant and his perspective of how he envisions the story ending so he thinks Act five it sums it up nicely he wanted you to ponder what happens to Eliza and to consider changes for society but because everyone was changing his his ending and making it romantic he had to you know respond so he says okay um first of all Higgins is not GNA marry Eliza because Higgins really only loves himself and his mom and there's no other woman that he thinks is as perfect as his mom okay so he's got this you know there's no one halfway comparable to Mrs Higgins and you know Eliza doesn't even compare and then after she dies Mrs Higgins he'd still have Milton and his Universal alphabet his phonex so if Eliza marries anyone at all then it has to be Freddy and that's just what Eliza did according to sha and then he goes on to rant and talk about how dreary their lives are that they marry their marriage is tough and they open a flower shop as owners a flower and vegetable shop um and it's you know a lot of irony here CU Freddy was in the upper class but remember he was treated as dumb at the beginning and he was mistreated by his sister and mother and Eliza's mistreated so they share that but they end up having to take classes and accounting and penmanship so that they will um you know be better able to run the business so we can see that the whole play is satirical right it's a it's intentionally he's deconstructing ing that whole romantic ending he's saying I don't want there to be a big gushy romance at the end I want you to know what real life is like what's really happen in happening in Victorian society right so listen to it this week and just kind of hear his rant so you can um kind of complete the play in your mind um I also am going to be posting your assignment about your character analysis so you guys are going to be writing um an analysis about Alfred do little so as I mentioned before I wanted you to start collecting adjectives about him and quotes about him okay so um remember and I have a video on on your canvas assignment that I'll open about what middle class morality is um and how he feels about it um but basically this goes right in with the whole satirical message Alfred dittle has changed at least on the surface just like Eliza from the beginning to the end he kind of parallels Eliza's Journey interestingly enough so he's changes his clothes his financial circumstances his social position by all accounts he's a different person just like Eliza but then like Eliza he kind of finds himself in the middle of nowhere and he's like well what am I supposed to do I don't want to be in middle class morality I don't want to have to change my values so has he really changed has Eliza changed so I really want you to think about you know Alfred D's plight is he different on the inside so you're in this essay you're going to explore his behavior and his expressed values what he holds dear okay his decisions that he makes so start by just brainstorming like I did in blue here on the screen words that would describe Alfred do little just start just throwing it out on the paper what describes him what did you learn about him and then go back in and find specific quotes after you choose maybe three adjectives that describe him and think about their effect okay how does that um how does that play in with Shaw's whole satirical message the central themes of the novel okay so for example as you're developing your thesis statement you're going to name the character Alfred dle you're going to name the three traits your adjectives and you're going to explain the purpose of those traits and how they're Central to the novel The themes the satirical message okay because remember a thesis statement directs the whole essay and it can't just be stated it needs to be you know you need to like not announce the topic but you need to say what you're going to explore okay what is the effect on the reader what is the effect on the character the novel okay what is Shaw's message okay so an example is you could say Alfred ditt laziness irresponsibility and immorality illustrate so you need a strong verb a stereotypical view of England's lower class Society in the 1900s so then when you explore a paragraph about laziness one about irresponsibility and one about immorality um then you will relate all of those back to the fact that it relates to England's lower class Society in the 1900s this stereotypical view so you're going to be talking about you're going to weave through your essay about stereotypes right in this time period and how Alfred D represents that okay so we're analyzing the character but with a bigger picture in mind okay another example even though Alfred dittle is a hypocrite with how he treats his daughter Iris responsible in every aspect of his life so hypocritical irresponsible and immoral for wanting to not subject himself with the middle class morals he makes for a hilarious and interesting character in the way he interacts with others okay but I still even want that on that one that one's an okay thesis statement but I still want you to dig deeper of why is he interesting how does Shaw use him to portray a deeper message sorry my internet just went out for a second Mr D's traits of being mischievous worldly and lazy reveal his commitment to an enjoyment of being part of the undeserving poor okay if you're going to do that one then why does he want to be part of the undeserving poor Define that and then explain that in your essay okay so I want you to start brainstorming about Alfred dittle and details will be coming on canvas okay so for homework this week um just listen to the epilog I put the audio version in your announcements so you can just listen to it you don't have to go through and read it it's tedious remember it's his rant and his answer to why he didn't write a romance he's writing a satire we're g to finish up discussing pigmon a little bit next week and then dive into great expectations so make sure you have that um so no reading other than just listening to the epilog um and then you're going to start writing your literary analysis about Alfred ditt so start brainstorming okay for research very exciting we are now going to stop talking about technology and we're going to start addressing the American dream okay so in 20.2 which I will open today or tomorrow um read it carefully if my directions overwhelm you then divide it up over several days and read a little bit at a time because it's a ton of information that I don't want you to miss okay it's all about research so like read a little bit and then go back a few hours later and read a little bit more it's about plagiarism it's about how to um create note cards and Source cards and you're going to want to be very meticulous and follow the directions on this you can either use actual lined note cards or you can do digital note cards and so you're going to start actually working on the American dream topic this week so start thinking about your research question and the direction you want to go with this topic the sky the limit you can address anything you want to you can research and explore anything about the American dream okay all right sorry I went over a couple of minutes and I will see you guys next week I'll hang on if you have questions bye bye bye thank you thank you bye thank you Ava did you have a question