Social Concepts in Love Stories

Mireya 2022-04-22 07:01:26

The professor taught us what it is called, abusing a wife for a while, and chasing a wife in a crematorium. I think after watching this film, it is not about the love between two people, but more about the British society at that time. The people at the bottom and women discrimination. The heroine is very smart, but she can't escape the melting pot of society. Her so-called lady is based on the ideas of men and the ideas of professors, but the professors don't understand women at all. Think about how ridiculous it is, people who have made you, but don't understand you at all. Men change women easily, but women cannot change men at all. How sad. I don't understand why the heroine is already like a princess, but she still has to go back to the classroom and serve him like a maid, but she only expects his poor little closeness. The professor did not change his attitude to the end, and changed the discrimination against women, which really seems a bit infuriating. The existence of the colonel is the most likeable in the whole play. His gentlemanly demeanor, his patience, his tolerance and his encouragement, it can be said that without the colonel, there would be no ladylike heroine. Such is the upbringing and demeanor of a truly upper class person, and it's fascinating. The professor's mother supported the heroine at the last moment, saying that she would face her son like a princess, and could drive him out of her home. The more open-minded mother, even if she knew from the beginning that the heroine was a humble flower girl, she did not discriminate or scorn at all. On the other hand, the heroine's father is ruthless and cold-blooded, which makes people feel cold. If it wasn't for the fact that he sold the heroine to the professor for 5 pounds at the beginning, the professor's attitude towards the heroine might have changed later.

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My Fair Lady quotes

  • Professor Henry Higgins: Eliza, you are to stay here for the next six months, learning to speak beautifully, like a lady in a florist's shop. If you work hard and do as you're told, you shall sleep in a proper bedroom, have lots to eat, and money to buy chocolates and go for rides in taxis. But if you are naughty and idle, you shall sleep in the back kitchen amongst the black beetles, and be walloped by Mrs. Pearce with a broomstick. At the end of six months you will be taken to Buckingham Palace, in a carriage, beautifully dressed. If the king finds out you are not a lady, you will be taken to the Tower of London, where your head will be cut off as a warning to other presumptuous flower girls! But if you are not found out, you shall have a present... of, ah... seven and six to start life with as a lady in a shop. If you refuse this offer, you will be the most ungrateful, wicked girl, and the angels will weep for you.

  • Eliza Doolittle: [singing] Lots of chocolate for me to eat! / Lots of coal makin' lots of heat / Warm face, warm hands, warm feet / Oh, wouldn't it be loverly?