My Fair Lady

Once she became a lady and living in Higgins' house she owned lots of clothes and lots of material culture but lost her freedom. Women were ruled by men and they didn't have a voice until Queen Victorian succeeded the thrown. This thought could have been drummed into her as a child. Even though Women's rights started in the early 1840's, a man was still legally able to "lock his wife up and beat her in moderation (www. He is quite wealthy but doesn't flaunt his money or a high position in society. The aristocracy's primary concern was to beget a son and an heir, since only a male could inherit family titles and sit in the House of Lords. It is also the type of life one leads with relation to material culture. A girl depending on the parents were taught to read, write, add and subtract (Perkin, 1993; 31). It was not a time for women who were still fighting for their right to be individuals and to abolish the ideal of "Angel in the House (Hellerstein, 1981; 134). She talked beautifully and acted beautifully. The story revolves around Eliza Doolittle, a cockney flower girl from Covent Garden, who agrees to take speech lessons from phonetician Henry Higgins in order to fulfil her dream of working in a flower shop and to increase her standard of life. He saw them as inferior, uneducated, annoying beings without feelings.

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