As Shaw intentionally utilized the protagonist to exhibit the transition from the proletarian to the upper class, he used the character of Alfred Doolittle for the according purpose whilst expressing his perspectives towards the class system. Depicted as an archetype of a working-class man, his name ‘Doo-little’ incarnates the typecast perception of the middle class towards the lower class – lethargic, futile, and ‘undeserving’. Doolittle inveighs against the concept of class division, expressing the purpose of middle class morality as ‘just an excuse for never giving me anything’ in spite of ‘charging’ identical payments for the poor and the ‘deserving’. In the Victorian era, the middle class had the capability to acquire decent jobs as they
