Pygmalion

Seeing Pygmalion from a feminist viewpoint makes the story change dramatically because the men in the story would be looked upon as powerless and little compared to the women in the story. In the story Liza is a poor young girl cast out by society and looked down upon because she is poor and doesn’t talk like everyone else in society which makes everyone want to distance themselves from her. If the story was flipped Higgins one of the smartest and wealthiest men in this story would be in Liza’s spot and would be looked down upon people he looked down upon.

In these times men were superior and women were looked at as the men’s property and were expected to stay in the house all day and clean or cook and please the man when they came home with their selves or the things that the husband likes and wants as soon as he walks in the house. Through a feminists viewpoint this unfair and dehumanizing, and a crushing blow to someone’s pride practically the women. Feminist would say that everyone needs equal rights and should all have the same opportunities to make something out of themselves. In this story the men are basically like rulers and owners of the women which isn’t fair and probably made the women feel some type of way as their husband has opportunities that they don’t have to better themselves just as the men do.

Women had to depend on men to basically live because you would not see a lot of women working so they would have to live off of their husband’s pay which also puts them under another kind of control that the husband has over them because he feels that he is the reason she is living. Feminist would say that women