After reading acts three and four of “Pygmalion,” there seems to be a difference between the way Higgins’ acts during the play and during the movie. In the movie he does not seem like he is being that rude. It just seems like he is very amused at her. In the play, however, he is just downright rude and I would not have expected that of him. He seemed like a gentleman at the beginning, but I guess it was just because he was a professor of phonetics and knew how to conduct himself as a gentleman, but only chose to do so whenever he felt it was necessary.
I was slightly confused at the end of act four because although Higgins seems very angry, it looks as though he is more angry at himself for acting the way he did toward Eliza. I may be completely off base here, but that is the way I see it. I also thought that Pickering was more of a gentleman at first as well, but he also took part in the bet with Higgins completely forgot about Eliza.
I agree. He comes off as so rude it's almost inhuman! what we watched in class doesn't really do justice to the way it plays out in the written form. but I also agree about his weird transition from hateful to almost remorseful, I talked about that in my blog too.
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