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Higgins. As well as the lower class which includes Eliza and Alfred Doolittle. It is important to know that these classes are dependent on one another throughout. When analyzing with a Marxist perspective, it is very clear that the society is separated by…

Due to differing contextual influences, Bernard Shaw’s play Pygmalion (1912) and Gary Marshall’s film Pretty Woman (1990) portray unique perspectives on the values of social hierarchy and gender roles. Shaw and Marshall both explore the transformation and social mobility of a young woman in order to comment on the social constructs of class divisions and gender roles within society. In Pygmalion, Shaw satirises the social hierarchy of early 20th century England whilst also criticising the rigid…

(Walters). Edmund S. Higgins has found that methylphenidates have been found to have a similar chemical structure to cocaine. This causes dopamine transporters to be blocked. Higgins states “the dopamine surge is so sudden that in addition to making a person unusually energetic and alert, it produces a ‘high’” and “Many former cocaine addicts struggle with depression, anxiety and cognitive problems … Similar problems … could occur after many years of Ritalin or Adderall use”…

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…

a lady and a flower girl is not how she behaves, but how she is treated”(page 120). In the book Pygmalion written by George Bernard Shaw, the main character Eliza Doolittle started off as a flower girl in the gutter, soon after a man named Henry Higgins a phonetic instructor brought her in and taught her how to speak like a duchess. However, Eliza has changed her outer appearance immensely, she remains the same woman internally. Eliza Doolittle has a very strong character. For example,…

that can individual places on his or her actions (Solomon & Higgins, 2010). Therefore, the questions that result from moral philosophy include; what should one do or not do? What will be the effect of one’s actions to others? Is it justified to do what one wants to do? The response to these questions allows an individual to decide on the type of affiliation that he or she should establish with those within his or her vicinity (Solomon & Higgins, 2010). However, some philosophers such as Immanuel…

George Bernard Shaw’s play Pygmalion and Garry Marshall’s film Pretty Woman both thoroughly explore values of society, each expressed through their unique contexts, language features and mediums. The central social values explored by these two texts are patriarchy, capitalism, and social class structure and hierarchy. Both texts utilise a combination of varying discourses, and language and film features in order to establish these central values. First performed in 1913, Pygmalion was written…

different approach on how women function in the play but also condemns the same issue of gender roles that Arcadia addressed. For example, Eliza Doolittle merely functions as an object to Higgins and Mr. Doolittle instead of being a respected individual as seen through Mr. Doolittle’s successful attempt to sell her to Higgins and Higgins’s advice to Eliza for her to marry and settle down. Essentially, Mr. Doolittle and Higgins’s disregard of the qualities Eliza has as a person reveals how Eliza…

showed the difference in social stance between Zack and Laney, similar to Pygmalion in Act 1 at Covent Garden which clearly shows the noticeable Victorian hierarchy between Higgins and Eliza. Both characters Higgins and Zack have the responsible to transform a woman to an ideal women to attain from their self-interest. Higgins who responsible to transform a not formally educated, lower class of ways speaking and low class appearance flower girl, named Eliza Doolittle into an ideal woman of a…

personality, rhetorically asking “And if existence will disturb a man with beauty, how can he help trying to impose on her the boundary of his two bare arms?” (Fry 18). This romantic interest in Alizon solely due to her beauty represents his impulsiveness because Nicholas is simply basing his actions on her external characteristics, rather than taking the time to truly get to know her. He also exhibits the masculine trait of aggression through his eagerness to fight again, asking Alizon, “Shall…