"Sober class consciousness"

Chad 2021-12-07 08:01:40

Class has its important functions.

With class, strangers don't need to waste time and energy to truly understand each other and how to treat each other.

In Bernard Shaw's work "Pygmalion" (Pygmalion, which was adapted into the movie "The Fair Lady"), Professor Higgins does not know the flower girl Eliza, but he has a good grasp of the relationship between the two But there is no need to hesitate.

The reason lies in the fact that as soon as he heard her talk, he knew she was a lower-class person, almost at the mercy of him—for example, using her as a chess piece, betting that this flower girl can be pretended to be a lady. Not seen through.

Everyone is born to belong to a specific class, and the destructive class pollutes the individual as well as the entire society.

A man’s Jiadi determines his occupation, his diet, his residence, and his marriage partner.

Marriage partners can only come from the same caste class, and their children inherit the same class.

Whenever a new profession or a group of new people appears, it is necessary to judge which caste class they belong to.

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My Fair Lady quotes

  • Professor Henry Higgins: She's an owl, sickened by a few days of *my* sunshine.

  • Professor Henry Higgins: Mother!

    Mrs. Higgins: What is it, Henry? What's happened?

    Professor Henry Higgins: [quietly, bewildered] She's gone.

    Mrs. Higgins: Well, of course, dear, what did you expect?

    Professor Henry Higgins: What... what am I to do?

    Mrs. Higgins: Do without, I suppose.

    [pause]

    Professor Henry Higgins: And so I shall! If the Higgins oxygen burns up her little lungs, let her seek some stuffiness that suits her. She's an owl sickened by a few days of my sunshine. Very well, let her go, I can do without her. I can do without anyone. I have my own soul! My own spark of divine fire!

    [storms outs]

    Mrs. Higgins: Bravo, Eliza.