... of sellin at the corner of Tottenham Court Road. But they won't take me unless I can talk more genteel" (23). This is precisely why she comes to Henry Higgins. He knows quite a bit about the study of speech. In fact, he is a professor of phonetics. He can "pronounce one hundred thirty vowel sounds" and ... herself with others in society, Eliza wants to take lessons on how to "talk more genteel" (23). Even though she has virtually no money, she insists to Henry Higgins and Colonel Pickering that she has "come to have lessons, I am. And pay for em too: make no mistakes" (23). She does not ...

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... they spoke to them was maybe how one would speak to an animal. Their voice would have an undertone of blame and disgust. The first comment Henry Higgins makes to Eliza is in fact an insult when he calls her a silly girl'. The situation in which this comment arises is when Eliza is selling ... flowers and Henry Higgins is posing as a note taker. The situation is an example of the discrimination against the working class as Eliza is immediately suspected of soliciting' or ... attitude of the middle class to clarify the differences between the two classes, and to give the middle class a fee...

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... they spoke to them was maybe how one would speak to an animal. Their voice would have an undertone of blame and disgust. The first comment Henry Higgins makes to Eliza is in fact an insult when he calls her ailly girl? The situation in which this comment arises is when Eliza is selling ... flowers and Henry Higgins is posing as a note taker. The situation is an example of the discrimination against the working class as Eliza is immediately suspected ofoliciting?or ... attitude of the middle class to clarify the differences between the two classes, and to give the middle class a feeling ...

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... even accused them of witch craft -Source 7 The middle class may have worked as teachers this shows they were well educated and would have been able to afford their education. -Source 4. The way they were educated shows in another way as well: Eleanor, Countess of Leicester, kept accounts for the king before, ... Middle Class women would also have helped run a shop with their husband, we know she is middle class because they would not have been able to afford a shop if they had of been poor, also if the shop sold precious stones or an expensive material this would have contributed to thei...

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... even accused them of witch craft -Source 7 The middle class may have worked as teachers this shows they were well educated and would have been able to afford their education. -Source 4. The way they were educated shows in another way as well: Eleanor, Countess of Leicester, kept accounts for the king before, ... Middle Class women would also have helped run a shop with their husband, we know she is middle class because they would not have been able to afford a shop if they had of been poor, also if the shop sold precious stones or an expensive material this would have contributed to thei...

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... by Ibsen in which characters are anxious about their finances (such as A Doll's House), Barrie tells us that the Darlings are not flush and had to calculate whether they could afford to have a child (with the interesting implication that they must have been practising contraception). As well, the stage direction establishes a tension between Mr Darling's identity at work, where he is ... the women, patrolled the areas where they lived, and so all women within those communities became suspect (Clark 644). This hyper-vigilance gave rise to suspicion about female desire. Wrote Henry Mayhew...

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... support of the middle class the lower class were unable to force any change. The local constables had been introduced by Peel to quell such movements and the Government could afford to ignore the Chartists demands. The House of Commons summarily refused to discuss the first petition despite the million or so signatures. Contained within the chartist movement were several different ... change the system through a moral force rather than any revolution. These divisions within the movement significantly reduced its effectiveness. henry Hetheringtom and William Lovett were unwilling to purs...

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