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A little insight about professors
Cristobal 2022-03-24 09:01:52
I finally know why the show is called Pygmalion. The professor gave the flower girl a chance to be reborn, just like Pygmalion carved a statue of a woman and gave her life, but the professor's social status and knowledge made his machismo inflated, he did not understand love, despised love, He is afraid of love, and terrifies the interaction between people, so that when love comes, he will not know how to express it, and he will not look at her with the right eyes. I won't look at her equally, and I won't give her dignity, so I prefer Bernard Shaw's original ending. In the end, the flower girl didn't return to the professor. If I were a flower girl, I wouldn't return to such a low emotional intelligence person. Around
Extended Reading
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Colonel Hugh Pickering: Are you a man of good character where women are concerned?
Professor Henry Higgins: Have you ever met a man of good character where women are concerned?
Colonel Hugh Pickering: Yes, very frequently.
Professor Henry Higgins: Well, I haven't. I find that the moment a woman makes friends with me she becomes jealous, exacting, suspicious, and a damn nuisance. And I find that the moment I make friends with a woman I become selfish and tyrannical. So here I am, a confirmed old bachelor and likely to remain so.
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Eliza Doolittle: I could have danced all night.