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Essay Archive - Pygmalion: Higgins' Philosophy
Pygmalion: Higgins' Philosophy
Professor Higgins is seen throughout Pygmalion as a very rude man.
While one may expect a well educated man, such as Higgins, to be a
gentleman, he is far from it. Higgins believes that how you treated
someone is not important, as long as you treat everyone equally.
The great secret, Eliza, is not having bad manners or good manners
or any other particular sort of manners, but having the same manner for all
human souls: in short, behaving as if you were in Heaven, where there are
no third-class carriages, and one s....
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