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Pygmalion Plot Analysis Most good stories start with a fundamental list of ingredients: the initial situation, conflict, complication, climax, suspense, denouement, and conclusion. Great writers sometimes shake up the recipe and add some spice. Initial Situation Eliza Doolittle is a poor girl with a thick accent and no prospects. Henry Higgins and Colonel Pickering are gifted linguists. The three have a fateful encounter one night in Covent Garden, during which Higgins reveals his talents as a teacher. OK, this is pretty standard. Shaw introduces us to the main characters, lets us know that Eliza has a problem, and that Henry has the skills to fix it. Conflict The next day, Pickering and Higgins are working in Higginss laboratory. Their conversation is interrupted by the entrance of Eliza. When the girl demands to be given lessons, Higgins bets Pickering he can pass her off as a duchess given six months. Pickering agrees. Here we have the potential resolution. Higgins is now given the opportunity to fix Elizas problems…but its not all sunshine and rainbows. His motives for doing so arent exactly clear. Complication Alfred Doolittle, Elizas father, shows up and blackmails Higgins into giving him some money. Eliza is a quick study, but teaching her proper grammar and manners proves difficult. Freddy Eynsford Hill falls head over heels for her anyway. Higginss mother warns him that hes only hurting Eliza by training her. This is where things get, well, complicated. Elizas father threatens to end the bet before it starts, teaching Eliza proves difficult, a romantic element is introduced, and a warning is issued. And rest assured, that warning isnt there for nothing. Climax After winning the bet, Higgins acts like he was completely bored by the whole process. He and Pickering proceed to talk about Eliza as if she hadnt even taken part in the pl