... a positive effect on his character, Higgins steadfastly retains his obstinate and stubborn nature. Both Professor Higgins and Edward Lewis come from affluent and high-ranking social classes, where respect and power is earned through their education and high socio-economic status. In the first scene in Pygmalion, Professor Higgins is surrounded by all social classes as he observes their speech outside Convent ... not meet her ideal; "I want the fairytale" Vivian and Eliza both aspire to greater things after their metamorphoses, the former returning to school and the latter deciding to tr...

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... 't just one to strive for or emulate now, it's simply the status quo. Things aren't the way they were in the 1950s, when one could enter the workforce directly after high school and stay self-assured of being reasonably well off, capable of raising and providing for a family. In that sense, Stanley Aronowitz" view about the disappearance of the "working class culture ... shows is "white-collar." Another factor in this is that more women are working now and are changing the traditional role of the breadwinner. This earning power gives them more independence, which we don't see as much in ...

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