Explain in the given extract 'I shall make a duchchess of this draggle-tailed guttersnipe?
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Answer:
you have to carefully read the passage and also make it clear to your mind.
The explaination is given below -
The above extract has been taken from George Bernard Shaws work named, Pygmalion.
The sentence is being spoken by Professor Henry Higgins, a character in the novel who is professor of phonetics.
He wants to work over a character, who is a girl named Elizabeth
She is dirty and unhygienic flower seller. His aim is to transform herself and her speech into equivalent of a duchess.
Duchess is a wife of Duke.
His sentence in above extract also means the same, that he will convert this dirty lady - draggle tailed guttersnipe has been used in this reference, into a duchess i.e he wants to transform and present her in public as a lady.
In the story, his experiment is more than successful, as the people assume girl to be a Hungarian Princess. Princess is a rank above than duchess.