Higgins

Shaw creates character Henry Higgins, a phonetician, who tries to transform the flower-selling, cockney Eliza Doolittle into a lady. While exploring the idea of creation between Higgins and Doolittle, Shaw chooses to focus on their social dimensionality. While Eliza is trained to speak and act like a lady, she does not gain the proper instincts in social situations without further instruction after her first attempt to appear normal. The opposing opinions of Higgins and Doolittle work to…

Bates puts in a greater amount of effort in the well-being of Roger than Mrs. Higgins does to Alfred. This is evident when Mrs. Bates invites Roger into her home, and she informs him how she “has a great mind to wash [his] face.” (Hughes 2). Mrs. Bates goes even further, as rather than just cleaning up Roger and letting him go, she…

of the cases, Mr. Higgins is very sexist towards Eliza and women in general. He see’s Doolittle has an object rather than a human being. Higgins is also very self centered and only cares about his success and accomplishments he will gain by transforming Eliza. As for Eliza Doolittle, in both cases she is getting drawn into the idea that if her pronunciation gets better, she will live a better life. During the period of transformation, she realizes that she is an object to Higgins and decides to…

Eliza Doolittle is a pitiable flower girl, who unfortunately becomes an experimental object of two linguistic gentlemen in Pygmalion. Higgins and Pickering, who are extremely interested in phonetics, share a mutual belief that changing someone’s speech manner and accent is the gist of a life-changing, social transformation. Their criticism of the girl’s dreadful accent generally reflects the inevitable reality of social hierarchy in Britain, where the wrongful partiality of language, social…

different then the myth because a lot happened in the play. The greek myth was about Pygmalion who fell in love with a statue. The play was about Higgins who turned a flower girl into a lady. They are both have the same concept just different ways of going about it. In the play and the myth are similar in very few ways, but have the same concept. Higgins and Pygmalion both hate women. They both despise their qualities and they both try to make perfect women. They both have the same concept as…

By naming his play after this myth, Shaw sets expectations of what the role of women will be in his play. Higgins and Pickering ‘create’ the perfect woman out of Eliza, a empty-handed flower girl who has to learn how to behave and talk like an upperclass lady. Eliza tries hard to become the girl Higgins and Pickering want her to be and succeeds in making other higher class women believe she belongs in that class, but in the end, Eliza can’t stand her new…

note taker as Higgins, the upper-class audience will likely enjoy his personality, as his studies in lower-class speech pattern will depict him favourably. After Higgins educates Eliza, she will express concern as to where she will go, after Higgins has won his wager. After Higgins suggests releasing her back into the lower-class, Eliza begins to realize Higgins’ exploitation of her. In the final two acts, the audience will begin to realize the immorality of the upper class. Higgins will…

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circumstances. She first enters the scene when she is attempting to solicit money from Colonel Pickering, but then she changes her tune. She wishes to adopt middle-class manners, something both her father and Higgins hate, and something which in-and-of-itself will be difficult, simply because Higgins has no manners himself, being a crass and vulgarly mannered man. But, despite her original motive she has a knack for learning, showing a tenacity to…

It is true that Higgins does not create Eliza from ivory, as Pygmalion does in the myth, but he sculpts her personality and her presentation in a very deliberate way, giving a strong connection to the original tale. As well as making these changes, Shaw ensured that Higgins and Eliza did not marry in the end. He goes so far as to write a sequel in prose, asserting the fact that Eliza marries Freddy Eynsford-Hill, inferior to Higgins in both presence and intellect. This choice…