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You won my bet? presumptuous insect! I won it. - Higgins page 76

Pretty much in this one, Eliza is super upset that the men in her life aren’t giving credit for her hardwork, and when she lets slip that she won higgin’s bet, he gets really mad because he thinks that because she is a woman, she is just a test subject, a guinee pig if you like.

It’s only irritation, Low spirits and nothing else. No body’s hurting you. Nothing is wrong, you go to bed like a good girl and sleep it off. Have a little cry and say your prayers: that will make it more comfortable. Higgins page 77

Higgins thinks that because she is a woman, she gets spontaneously emotional, like the stigma of because a woman has her period, she gets super emotional. So he is trying to calm her down and make her feel batter,but he is doing it in such a way that is sexist, but I dont think he knows it.

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Mrs Higgins: “Do without, I’m afraid, Henry. The girl has a perfect right to leave if she chooses.”
Higgins: [wandering distractedly across the room] But I can’t find anything. I don’t know what appointments I’ve got ...”
Act 5, pg 86

Higgins’ treatment of Eliza can easily be likened to that of a master and a servant. He relies on her, almost childishly, to remember his own appointments and possessions that he should be responsible for, as an adult, to manage.
Mrs Higgins, almost reminding Higgins, that Eliza is a person with rights to herself and she can come and go as she pleases.

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"She’s no use....I’m not going to waste another cylinder on it. Be off with you: I don’t want you." -Higgins

Higgins does not take Eliza into consideration, does not want to waste anything good of his on her.

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PICKERING: The inspector made a lot of difficulties. I really think he suspected us of some improper purpose.”
MRS HIGGINS: Well, of course he did. What right have you to go to the police and give the girl’s name as if she were a thief, or a lost umbrella, or something? Really! [She sits down again, deeply vexed].
Act 5, pg 86

Pickering and Higgins reported Eliza to the police, knowing full-well that she left of her own will and intent. This pursuit after Eliza is like a pursuit after lost property- which Mrs Higgins scolds them for.
Higgins and Pickering were fully aware that Eliza left of her own will and intent, and so their pursuit after her is childlike and foolish- and can be perceived as an intrusion into Eliza’s privacy.

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"You see this creature with her kerbstone English: the English that will keep her in the gutter to the end of her days. Well, sir, in three months I could pass that girl off as a duchess at an ambassador's garden party. I could even get her a place as lady's maid or shop assistant, which requires better English."

- Higgin

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What am i fit for? What have you made me fit for? Where am I to go? What am i to do? whats to become of me? Liza, page 78

After this quote, Eliza is saying that she doesnt know what to do after she leaves, because everything she owns, where she lives, whats shes learnt, its all from Higgins. She doesnt know how to be herself, or how to be her new self

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(To Liza),you’re not bad looking: it;s quite a pleasure to look at you sometimes-not now of course,, because yore crying and looking as ugly as the very 🤬; but when you’re all right and quite yourself, your’re what i should call attractive. Higgins page 78

This quote is super sexist because Higgins is saying that because Eliza is beautiful, all she is good for is marriage. Nowhere in this act does he draw light on her exceptional intelligence, as she pretty much learns how to speak and act completely different to how she does already. He only ever draws on her looks and her failures.

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"Pickering: Shall we ask this baggage to sit down, or shall we throw her out the window?" -Higgins

Not only does this refer to Marxism, but feminism. There is no distinction between whether he is discriminating her class or her gender, still he is being extremely rude and treating her like she is worth nothing

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"A woman who utters such depressing and disgusting sounds has no right to be anywhere - no right to live. Remember that you are a human being with a soul and the divine gift of articulate speech: that your native language is the language of Shakespeare and Milton and The Bible: and don't sit there crooning like a bilious pigeon."

- Higgins.

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"I've picked up a girl." - Higgins

Yes, it's short and doesn't mean much. But like really Higgins? You just picked up a girl? Objectification in my opinion. I bite my thumb at Higgins

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Misogyny Definition: 'dislike of, contempt for, or ingrained prejudice against women'

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Misogyny Definition: 'dislike of, contempt for, or ingrained prejudice against women'

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"...-and he treats me as if I’m dirt." -Eliza

Eliza picks up on the fact that she’s being treated badly and Higgins is objectifying her to dirt, and before it was a bag. She does not like the way she has been treated and makes it loud and clear that she has been treated that way.

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"Oh, I can't be bothered with young women. My idea of a lovable women is somebody as like you as possible. I shall never get into the way of seriously liking young women: Some habits lie too deep to be changed. Besides, they're all idiots" - Higgins

Once again, to him, women are all under categories and not individuals. They're all 'idiots'.

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HIGGINS: [Jumping up] Nonsense! He can’t provide for her. He shan’t provide for her. She doesn’t belong to him. I paid him five pounds for her. Doolittle: either you’re an honest man or a rogue.”
Act 5, pg 90

Higgins protest against Doolittle caring and providing for Eliza stems from the basis that he ‘bought her’. However, Eliza is a person, not a product or an object that can be bought in a shop.

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"Sit down," Higgins says peremptorily.

Then again.

"Sit down," Higgins says thundering at her.

Here Higgins brings Eliza's worth down to a dog as he demands her to sit and do as she’s told. She is treated like a dog should be treated. Which is wrong and horrible altogether.

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"[explosively] Woman: cease this detestable boohooing instantly; or else seek the shelter of some other place of worship."

- Higgins.

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"Well, it's like this. SHe's a common flower girl. I picked her off the curbstone." - Higgins

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"I've taught her to speak properly; she has strict orders as to her behavior." - Higgins

OK, so she's following orders. Nice. Just nice. Speaks for itself I think.

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I sold flowers. i didnt sell myself. Now you’ve made a lady out of me, I’m not fit to sell anything else. i wish you left me where you found me. Eliza page 78

She makes a fair point here, like when she was purely herself, doing her own thing, being a florist queen, she didnt have to worry about the male gaze, and about how others wanted her to act. Now that she does, she doesnt know what to do with herself. She never turned to prostitution on the streets because she knew that she didnt want to do that, so she didnt. However, now that she is a lady, all she see’s herself fit as, and what she has been told, is that she is only there to be on the arm of man.

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"I've a sort of bet on that I'll pass her off as a duchess in six months. I started on her some months ago."
- Higgins

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"You mustn’t speak to gentlemen like that." -Mrs Pearce

Mrs Pearce is now stuck in the loop of that men are higher than women (maybe also in class too) because Higgins has treated her like he is treating Eliza, but she’s become used to it that she doesn’t pick it up.

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"I have got accustomed to hear you talking about men as rotters, and calling everything filthy and beastly; though I do think it horrible and unladylike." - Mrs Eynsford Hill

Grr.. "Ladylike"

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This feels like the literary form of social media. I love it.

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MRS HIGGINS: Just so. She had become attached to you both. She worked very hard for you, He ry. I don’t think you quite realise what anything in the nature of brain work means to a girl of her class. Well, it seems that when the great day of trial came, and she did this wonderful thing for you without making a single mistake, you two sat there and never said a word to her, but talked together of how glad you were that it was all over and how you had been bored with the whole thing. And then you were surprised because she threw your slippers at you! I should have thrown the fire-irons at you.”
Act 5, pg 91

Mrs Higgins sympathises with Eliza’s situation. As a woman of status and a member of the upper class, she is accustomed to a comfortable living situation. However, as a woman, she understands Eliza’s situation in not receiving the recognition she so rightly deserves.
Her outrage at Higgin’s ignorance in the matter is rightly justified as she is able to sympathise with Eliza on a level neither Pickering nor Higgins could hope to achieve.

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"It’s almost irresistible. She’s so deliciously low —- so horribly dirty —-." Higgins

Higgins refers to her as dirt once again.

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He might want them (The clothes she is wearing), for the next girl you pick up to experiment on. Eliza, page 79

She puts it down how it is. She was just an experiment, they wanted to see if a female could learn how to be the ideal woman. She did it, she won his bet. But why is she getting no credit? Because she’s a female, thats why.

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"She's a triumph of your art and of her dressmaker's" - Mrs Higgins about Eliza

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Im sorry, im just a common, ignorant girl; and in my station i have to be careful. There cant be feelings between the lik