![]() ![]() ![]() In addition, he is so set in his ways that he announces to Eliza that if someone doesn't want to get run over, they had better get out of his way. Henry Higgins is a confirmed bachelor, and this fact alone should rule out all popularizers who would create a romantic entanglement between Higgins and Eliza. His use of phonetics to make a flower girl into a duchess does not mean that the play is about phonetics the play concerns different definitions of manners, and thus Higgins' actions must be taken fully into account. Since manners have always been the subject matter of comedies from the time of Aristophanes, Higgins' view of manners differs greatly from his own actions. Yet he is completely socially inept his manners are so bad that his own mother does not want him in her house when she has company, and his manners are so offensive that she will not attend the same church at the same time. He is a combination of loveable eccentricities, brilliant achievements, and devoted dedication to improving the human race. In spite of his brilliant intellectual achievements, his manners are usually those of the worst sort of petulant, whining child. ![]() Henry Higgins, forty years old, is a bundle of paradoxes. ![]()
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