Pygmalion: Writing to a character as a if character in the play

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Pygmalion written assignment

Imaginary Letter written by Mrs. Higgins to her sister Amelia. Complete the letter, being true to both Mrs. Higgins’s made expressions, her psychology, and the events in Act 3 of Pygmalion.

My dearest Amelia,

I was delighted and amused to read your news about Charles’s adventures in Matabeleland. I must admit, though, that I have been a wholehearted supporter of the “colonial venture”, as that awful Mr. Chamberlain called it, and always felt that that Cecil Rhodes was a dreadful upstart, but I do believe that Charles’s involvement in that country can only be for the good: he’s such a good-hearted and idealistic young man. I sometimes wonder, however, about my own son.

Henry is, I will frankly admit, the despair of my life: still unmarried at 42, still behaving on all almost all occasions like a bull in a china shop, and still foolishly obsessed with that incomprehensible phonetics of his. Sometimes I have wondered if he is in fact my own son or something out of a play – and the matter was almost resolved last Wednesday when I saw Mr. Barrie’s latest offering, a fantasy for children called “Peter Pan”. It was all about a little boy who refuses to grow up – in other words, it was all about Henry! And you could never imagine what his latest enthusiasm – or “wheeze” as he might call it – is.

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He turned up here yesterday – quite uninvited of course – at the at-home I had arranged for those poor Eynsford-hills, saying he had a “phonetic job” and that he’d picked up a girl.

At first I was astonished and slightly relieved because I believed he had at last found love. Then I realized he had said it was for a “phonetic job” and was disappointed seeing as I now understood it had nothing to do with a love affair, which was a pity. He explained that he had taken in a common but decent flower girl and taught her ...

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