It’s an odd play because one instinctively feels that it wouldn’t be so easy for Eliza to escape Higgins. And that is the one truth that Shaw couldn’t allow, given everything. But I love it for the truth that Higgins addresses a duchess as if she were a flower girl, and Pickering a flower girl as though she were a duchess. Yet, you know, Higgins appears to believe, at the end, that the flower girl is (really) the lady.
Ugh, I hate shouty plays and movies. What a pity.
It’s an odd play because one instinctively feels that it wouldn’t be so easy for Eliza to escape Higgins. And that is the one truth that Shaw couldn’t allow, given everything. But I love it for the truth that Higgins addresses a duchess as if she were a flower girl, and Pickering a flower girl as though she were a duchess. Yet, you know, Higgins appears to believe, at the end, that the flower girl is (really) the lady.
He crosses the class gulf but not the human one.