CHARACTER ANALYSIS

Character Analysis



Character Analysis

Professor Henry Higgins in George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion

In the publication Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw, Henry Higgins is a very pompous professor.  When he agrees with Eliza Doolittle he mentions to her slum English by producing the statement: "You glimpse this creature with her kerbstone English: the English that will hold her in the gutter to the end of her days."

Henry is producing the statement because he talks high English while Eliza's pattern of dialect is scarcely understandable to persons who talk like Henry. Because of her poor English she would not ever be adept to advancement after her natural environment which is the poorer districts of London.

Henry Higgins is a professor of phonetics who performances Pygmalion to Eliza Doolittle's Galatea. He is the scribe of Higgins' Universal Alphabet, accepts as factual in notions like evident talk, and values all manner of notes and photographic material to document his phonetic subjects, decreasing persons and their dialects into what he sees as gladly understandable units. He is an unconventional man, who proceeds in the converse main heading from the rest of humanity in most matters. Indeed, he is intolerant with high humanity, forgetful in his public graces, and badly considerate of usual communal niceties--the only cause the world has not turned contrary to him is because he is at heart a good and innocuous man. His large-scale obvious error is that he can be a bully. Everything about Eliza Doolittle appears to withstand any accepted notions we might have about the loving heroine. In other phrases, the feature of Eliza Doolittle arrives over as being much more instrumental than fundamental. The genuine (re-)making of Eliza Doolittle occurs after the ambassador's party, when she concludes to make a statement for her own dignity contrary to Higgins' insensitive treatment. This is when ...