Pygmalion Social class Essay
Thought the play we notice how social class affects the interactions between the characters and the way they classify a person just by what they have not the quality of person they are. Mr. Higgins a man of may with the best payed education is the mentor of Liza. He who has had the best education and belongs to an upper social class, but as a human being has no manners and no education at all. And liza a poor innocent flower poor who dreams of being well educated and having a place as an upper class lady.
One of the situations that stand in the play eliza's and mr.Higgins relationship and how she was judged based on her social class, and treated as less. "Oh, pay her …show more content…
But the teachings of mr. Higgins are some what disrespectful; to what a women of a lower class going into an upper class would be. He a man of money with well payed education but no education at all lacks in having any sort of manners as a human being. "THE FLOWER GIRL. I want to be a lady in a flower shop stead of selling at the corner of Tottenham Court Road. But they won't take me unless I can talk more genteel. He said he could teach me. Well, here I am ready to pay him—not asking any favor—and he treats me as if I was dirt. (2.34)".In this society to be a lady is not just about how you are as a person but how well you were educated and how much money you have to have received this education that classifies you as a lay or a gentleman. Liza is willing to even pay to be taught but is treated as less just because of the social class she was born in."THE FLOWER GIRL. [She is no doubt as clean as she can afford to be; but compared to the ladies she is very dirty. Her features are no worse than theirs; but their condition leaves something to be desired; and she needs the services of a dentist]. (1.29)".Higgins compares aliza to the women of high social class. This shows how he is a man of poor manners that judges women not the time of person or the type of human being but just on how they look and what they have. He has no respect for women he compares them and says that of course women of high class are cleaner but they look equally as bad poor or with
Thought the play we notice how social class affects the interactions between the characters and the way they classify a person just by what they have not the quality of person they are. Mr. Higgins a man of may with the best payed education is the mentor of Liza. He who has had the best education and belongs to an upper social class, but as a human being has no manners and no education at all. And liza a poor innocent flower poor who dreams of being well educated and having a place as an upper class lady.
One of the situations that stand in the play eliza's and mr.Higgins relationship and how she was judged based on her social class, and treated as less. "Oh, pay her …show more content…
But the teachings of mr. Higgins are some what disrespectful; to what a women of a lower class going into an upper class would be. He a man of money with well payed education but no education at all lacks in having any sort of manners as a human being. "THE FLOWER GIRL. I want to be a lady in a flower shop stead of selling at the corner of Tottenham Court Road. But they won't take me unless I can talk more genteel. He said he could teach me. Well, here I am ready to pay him—not asking any favor—and he treats me as if I was dirt. (2.34)".In this society to be a lady is not just about how you are as a person but how well you were educated and how much money you have to have received this education that classifies you as a lay or a gentleman. Liza is willing to even pay to be taught but is treated as less just because of the social class she was born in."THE FLOWER GIRL. [She is no doubt as clean as she can afford to be; but compared to the ladies she is very dirty. Her features are no worse than theirs; but their condition leaves something to be desired; and she needs the services of a dentist]. (1.29)".Higgins compares aliza to the women of high social class. This shows how he is a man of poor manners that judges women not the time of person or the type of human being but just on how they look and what they have. He has no respect for women he compares them and says that of course women of high class are cleaner but they look equally as bad poor or with