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unit4 Pygmalion12023/11/7 22023/11/7 PygmalionBased on classical myth, Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion plays on the complex business of human relationships in a social world. Bernard Shaw32023/11/7 Pygmalion effect is one of the social psychological effects . Pygmalion was the king of Cyprus in the ancient tale of Greece, who fell in love with a sculpture of a young girl and expected to be accepted sincerely . The real love and expectation moved the Goddness of love called Venus, Aphr . Active expectation makes people develop towards the good direction while passive expectation makes people develop towards the worse direction. Only by sending active expecation can make a person develop well .pygmalion effect42023/11/7 my fair ladyPhonetics Professor Henry Higgins tutors the very Cockney Eliza Doolittle, not only in the refinement of speech, but also in the refinement of her manner. When the end result produces a very ladylike Miss Doolittle, the lessons learned become much more far reaching. The successful musical My Fair Lady was based on this Bernard Shaw classic.52023/11/7 A Brief Introduction Henry Higgins was a stubborn and proud linguistic professor. One day he came across a rude flower girl, Eliza Doolittle ,telling her a person’s accent stand for his social class. If she changed her pronunciation , she would get a good job . After the professor got home, he met Captain Pickering , one who was also interested in different languages .The professor made a bet with the captain that he could train a girl from the lower social class to be a gentle lady in the upper social class. The next day Eliza happened to come and became a student of the professor with the help of the captain. She made so rapid progress that she became a gentle lady with a good accent as well as polite behaviours by hard learning. At last , at a formal and big dance she was introduced to the upper society and won the pr