ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Henry Higgins, fictional character, a professor of phonetics who makes a bet that he can teach Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle how to speak proper English, in George Bernard Shaw’s play Pygmalion (performed 1913).

Detailed explanation-2: -Higgins is dreadfully rude, misogynistic, and arrogant. It’s not by choice; he simply doesn’t think better of it. He absorbs himself in his work, and the niceties of society don’t interest him much. Without Eliza and his servants, he’d lose his head if he put it down.

Detailed explanation-3: -Eliza Doolittle is a fictional character and the protagonist in George Bernard Shaw’s play Pygmalion (1913) and its 1956 musical adaptation, My Fair Lady.

Detailed explanation-4: -Higgins is a brilliant linguist, who studies phonetics and documents different dialects and ways of speaking. He first appears in Act One as the suspicious man in the back of the crowd jotting down notes on everyone’s manner of speech.

Detailed explanation-5: -Higgins is a static character because he makes no mention whatsoever in the play of becoming a changed man. He never hesitates in doing what he has always done, which is looking down on the people around him.