... does not treat Eliza as an equal but as someone much lower and calls her insulting names like guttersnipe' and squashed cabbage leaf'. Higgins differs from Pygmalion in that he arrogantly takes full credit for the evolution of Eliza to a lday without any gratitude or acknowledgement for Eliza's efforts. Eliza as a ... give the audience a greater understanding of the play and of the messages it is trying to send society. The 1990s film Pretty Woman carries the Pygmalion themes into a different era with its own values nad behaviours. The form it takes represents the age from which it comes ...

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... , "Is there a relationship between social class and language skills and is there a relationship between social class and morality?" In G. Bernard Shaw's play "Pygmalion," the play proves a character's social class can be determined by his or her use of language and a person's morality who belongs to a higher class ... 's social class and morality is not judged by the one's stature in social class, but this play proves how these concepts are common stereotypes. "Pygmalion" is a play based on a poor flower girl who is transformed into an elegant, classy, and sophisticated duchess by a man o...

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