In the myth of Pygmalion, a sculptor creates a statue of a woman so beautiful that he falls in love with it. His obsession with the statue
takes over his life.
In the musical My Fair Lady, Professor Henry Higgins tries to train a
poor flower seller, Eliza Doolittle, to speak like a rich person so that she
can pass as a lady. Gradually, Henry starts to fall in love with her.
What motif is present in both the myth and the modern story?
A. The importance of courage
OB. Useless attempts to control fate
C. Losing oneself to a task
O D. Conflict between classes
SUBMIT

(1) fire extended humans’ geographical boundaries by allowing them to travel into regions that were previously too cold to explore. (2) it also kept predators away, allowing early humans to sleep securely. (3) fire, in fact, has been a significant factor in human development and progress in many ways. (4) other obvious benefits of fire are its uses in cooking and in hunting. (5) probably even more important, however, is that learning to control fire allowed people to change the very rhythm of their lives. (6) before fire, the human daily cycle coincided with the rising and setting of the sun. (7) with fire, though, humans gained time to think and talk about the day’s events and to prepare strategies for coping with tomorrow. the sentence that expresses the main idea is: (type the number of the sentence. then click “go.”)