Home Assignment

1. Translate into English:

   1. Взрослые дети должны быть независимы от своих родителей.

   2. Было бы неправильно пренебречь таким хорошим адвокатом.

   3. Он обеспечивает её средствами к существованию, а она этого совершенно не ценит. Да она полностью от него зависит.

   4. Заискивать передо мной — подло.

   5. И не надо мне тут рассказывать (врать), я и так знаю, какой он безрассудный. Он никогда не может удержаться от соблазна. Как только у него появляются хоть какие-то деньги, он тут же их спускает.

2. Write a summary of the whole play providing both your plan and key-words in the exercise-book.

3. Get ready to discuss the sequel (epilogue) OR the whole play (your teacher decides which option you choose).

4. Whatever the previous choice is, get ready for a court trial of Henry Higgins. Make up speeches assuming the roles of the Counsel for the Defence and the Public Prosecitor. The culprit is Henry Higgins. Other roles include Eliza Doolittle, Alfred Doolittle, Col. Pickering, Mrs. Higgins, Freddy, etc.

Sequel (Epilogue). Comments The Class System

Find some information on the class system in the UK. This link might be helpful: http://www.romanceeverafter.com/19th_century_class_system.htm.

Tasks

1. What was the UK class system like? Is it still present?

2. Find the sentences in which the following word-combinations are used. Translate the sentences into Russian.

   1. to set sb the example

   2. affection

   3. precaution

   4. to cope with sth

   5. repulsive

   6. prejudice

   7. consent

   8. to alter sth

3. Use the above expressions in situations based on the book.

4. Paraphrase the following OR comment and explain it in English:

   1. Now Freddy is young, practically twenty years younger than Higgins: he is a gentleman (or, as Eliza would qualify him, a toff), and speaks like one; he is nicely dressed, is treated by the Colonel as an equal, loves her unaffectedly, and is not her master, nor ever likely to dominate her in spite of his advantage of social standing.

   2. But to admire a strong person and to live under that strong person's thumb are two different things.

   3. Weak people want to marry strong people who do not frighten them too much; and this often leads them to make the mistake we describe metaphorically as “biting off more than they can chew.”

   4. A clerkship at thirty shillings a week was beneath Freddy's dignity, and extremely distasteful to him besides. His prospects consisted of a hope that if he kept up appearances somebody would do something for him. The something appeared vaguely to his imagination as a private secretaryship or a sinecure of some sort.

   5. Fancy her feelings when he married a flower girl who had become déclassée under extraordinary circumstances which were now notorious!

   6. She could quarter herself on Wimpole Street because it had come to be her home; but she was quite aware that she ought not to quarter Freddy there, and that it would not be good for his character if she did.

   7. It was the Colonel who finally solved the problem, which had cost him much perplexed cogitation.

   8. The sole comment vouchsafed by him very nearly led to a serious quarrel with Eliza.

   9. And it is notable that though she never nags her husband, and frankly loves the Colonel as if she were his favorite daughter, she has never got out of the habit of nagging Higgins that was established on the fatal night when she won his bet for him.

5. Answer the teacher’s questions on the Sequel (Epilogue).

6. Make a summary of the Sequel (Epilogue). Keep in mind the guidelines given in Task 3 of Act I home assignment. You are to make a plan and a list of key-words and provide them in the exercise-book. Use of the words given in Task 2 is beneficial.

7. Express your agreement or disagreement with the following ideas:

   1. Eliza, in telling Higgins she would not marry him if he asked her, was not coquetting: she was announcing a well-considered decision.

   2. This makes him a standing puzzle to the huge number of uncultivated people who have been brought up in tasteless homes by commonplace or disagreeable parents, and to whom, consequently, literature, painting, sculpture, music, and affectionate personal relations come as modes of sex if they come at all.

   3. Even had there been no mother-rival, she would still have refused to accept an interest in herself that was secondary to philosophic interests. Had Mrs. Higgins died, there would still have been Milton and the Universal Alphabet.

   4. “When you go to women,” says Nietzsche, “take your whip with you.”

   5. This being the state of human affairs, what is Eliza fairly sure to do when she is placed between Freddy and Higgins? Will she look forward to a lifetime of fetching Higgins's slippers or to a lifetime of Freddy fetching hers?

   6. He added that he had always been afraid to propose anything of the sort, because Clara would make an awful row about a step that must damage her matrimonial chances, and his mother could not be expected to like it after clinging for so many years to that step of the social ladder on which retail trade is impossible.

   7. Galatea never does quite like Pygmalion: his relation to her is too godlike to be altogether agreeable.