Higgins

A detailed Summary of Higgins

Professor Higgins is seen throughout Pygmalion as a very rude man.

While one may expect a well educated man, such as Higgins, to be a

gentleman, he is far from it. Higgins believes that how you treated

someone is not important, as long as you treat everyone equally.

The great secret, Eliza, is not having bad manners or good manners or

any other particular sort of manners, but having the same manner for all

human souls: in short, behaving as if you were in Heaven, where there

are no third-class carriages, and one soul is as good as another.

Higgins presents this theory to Eliza, in hope of justifying his

treatment of her. This theory would be fine IF Higgins himself lived by

it. Henry Higgins, however, lives by a variety of variations of this

It is easily seen how Higgins follows this theory. He is consistently

rude towards Eliza, Mrs. Pearce, and his mother. His manner is the same

to each of them, in accordance to his philosophy. However the Higgins

we see at the parties and in good times with Pickering

philosophy. Try to imagine Higgins as a young teenager. A young

irrationally moving from chair to chair, highly unlike the calm

"He (Pickering) treats a flower girl as duchess." Higgins, replying to

Approximate Word count = 755
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)

Category: English

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