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class distinictions in pygmalion

king to Colonel Pickering about ElizaDoolittle. He talks to her with attitude and continuouslymakes rude comments just like that one towards her. He actsvery rudely towards her because he feels that she is just anexperiment of phonetics and sometimes he shows that hethinks she is worthless.Eliza Doolittle and Mr. Higgins are in a situation. Eliza wants to become a lady and Mr. Higgins is trying toturn her into one. In order for Higgins to transform Elizainto a lady he must teach her to speak and act properly. They accomplish this after a couple months, but somethingstill wasnt right. She still had that low class attitudeand it was noticeable. In order for her to become a reallady, she had to become a member of high society. Playing! The hardest job I ever tackled: make no mistake about that, mother. But you have no idea how frightfully interesting it is to take a human being and change her into a quite different human being by creating a new speech for her. Its filling up the deepest gulf that separates class from class and soul from soul (1180). That was Mr. Higgins talking to his mom. What he meant bysaying that was that teaching her to speak properly wouldend the difference between the classes. However, he alsohas a long while until she is finally and completely a lady.This play also has lots of aphoristic comments. Theseare short, pointed sentences expressing a wise or cleverobservation or general truth. Would the world ever have been made if its maker had been afraid of making trouble? Making life means making trouble. Theres only one way of escaping trouble; and thats killing things. Cowards, you notice, are always shrieking to have troublesome people killed (1199). That was Mrs. Higgins talking to Liza. This comment thatshe made was definitely an aphorism. This is because shewas making a wise observation on trouble in life. She issaying that all part...

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