Pygmalion Distinctive Voices

Module A – Experience Through Language “Distinctive Voices” Analysis Table – Pygmalion

(NOTES TO USE IN ESSAYS / EXTENDED RESPONSES)

|Technique |Evidence (include Act/page number) |EFFECT in relation to “Distinctive Voices” |
| | |Consider how “voice” and Shaw’s use of language: |
| | |Criticizes/comments on his society (authorial voice)
I could pass you off as the Queen of Sheba. Can you |large extent, his arrogance as suggested in the demeaning way he speaks to Eliza. Moreover, the rhetorical question |
| |believe that? |is effective as it suggests that he has the ability to change Eliza from her current state as an ‘incarnate insult to
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|Register – Cockney dialect | | |
|Exclamation |Act 1 (Eliza to Mrs Eynsford-Hill) |Shaw uses Eliza’s cockney dialect to create her distinctive voice and to set her apart from the other characters in |
| |There’s manners f’yer! Te-oo banches o voylets trod into the mad! |the play (except for her father, Alfred Dolittle). Her lack of education, social class and socioeconomic status are |
| |(There’s manners for you! Two bunches of violets trod into the |implied through her distinctive voice and the way she articulates sounds in speech. Shaw effectively conveys to the |
| |mud!) |audience her distinctive voice by attempting to spell each word as it sounds. This is indicative of the quote “Two