The job of a flower shop itself does not require too many requirements, but the society's worship of the upper class makes the elegant work of the flower shop selling flowers need to be matched with the same elegant people, and this quality is only limited to the rich and leisurely upper class. . In contrast to this, in the ambassador’s welcoming ball, Eliza’s beauty was widely recognized, just because of the suspected aristocratic identity brought by an additional aristocratic accent. The huge contrast reflects that in the hierarchical system, people are trying to maintain the hierarchy. System and habitually ignore some facts. Formed a de facto cultural monopoly. Unlike Eliza, Higgins, as an upper class, is informal and cursing at will does not affect his status as a professor of phonetics.
Class concepts affect people's attitudes towards others. Eliza's father was once brutally driven out of the tavern. After an unexpected class jump, he became the focus of the tavern and was married. The sharp contrast between the front and the back highlights the belief in the concept of class by the lower class, which forms a closed loop with the previous description of the upper class. The author also explained that the social problem of hierarchical society is not only the oppression and monopoly of the upper class, but the flattery psychology of the lower class is also an important factor in the formation of a morbid society.
The upper class ignores their own advantages. Higgins believes that he treats all classes equally, but enjoys the benefits and privileges of the upper class. When Eliza and Higgins met again, she pointed out that Higgins did not treat her as a flower girl like Mr. Pickering as a gentleman. Mr. Higgins treated everyone with the same attitude. Reason to refute. Higgins did indeed do this, but Higgins himself has huge wealth, lives in a mansion, employs Mrs. Pierce and a group of maids, things that these lower classes have no chance to own, such criticism seems pale and powerless. It reflects that part of the upper class represented by Higgins seems neutral and objective, but in fact still stands on its own stand.
Eliza expects to enter a higher class by changing her accent, but finally achieves it through her father's unexpected wealth. Getting a better job was originally Eliza's motivation to seek help from Higgins, and after helping Higgins complete the bet, Eliza realized that she was still facing the fate of being a tool. My own struggle and hard work are not even as good as the little luck that a lazy father brings because of him. It is a mockery of the lie that the struggle of the upper class propaganda can be successful.
Speaking as a technique turned out to be a sign to confirm the identity of the nobility. If it is out of the pursuit of beauty, there is no doubt that an elegant way of speaking will help a person become an upper-class person, but it is obvious that causality is inverted to judge a person's class based on the way of speaking.
Eliza's father did not feel guilty about receiving relief and her alcoholism. On the contrary, he had a certain degree of self-satisfaction. This completely contradicted the traditional British values, but this set of values was supported by the upper class. People always reject a class below their own class. The nobles are actually good friends of the proletarians, because they do not believe that they will become proletarians, so they are extremely generous.
Flattery and money worship are objective things in human nature, and will not increase or decrease because of the hierarchy. The hierarchy is the inevitable result of a stable social development. Perhaps a rigid system will lead to the development of greed, but I prefer it. Yu believes that the hierarchy is the result of the gloomy character of human nature rather than the cause.
In terms of love, Eliza finally chose to return to Higgins. This is a change from the film to the original work. I tend to think that this change is reasonable. Just like Lu Xun said that Nora left, she still wants to go back after all. From the perspective of female psychology, Higgins is the image of a mentor, and cross-dimensional blows are beyond the reach of women. When Eliza accepted the theory that there is an elegant voice to enter the upper echelon, Mr. Higgins had already defeated Eliza psychologically.
This film gave me such a view that fundamentalist feminists tend to become misogynists. Feminism carries an ideal against patriarchy, and out of an evolutionary instinct, women's psychological aggression is not as strong as that of men, and so is the struggle. In addition, the weak desire of women to choose a spouse has transformed into an advantage in the mate selection market, making it easier to realize rent-seeking power in a patriarchal society. This advantageous policy attracts women who stand in the spotlight and have the most power to speak. The image of a pseudo-feminist society. This is undoubtedly disgusted by fundamentalist feminists who think they are revolutionaries.
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