Thursday, July 9, 2009

Can we build a temporary upper-class society according to Shaw's "Pygmalion"? Can we built temporary upper class society according to shaw's...

Language is
and always will be culture.  It
does shape how people think and act; for instance, when Eliza
tries to return
to the vernacular of her flower-girl days, she is unable--she has changed. 
Yet,
she is not a lady, either, simply because she can speak like one.  For,
a social class entails
customs, ways of thinking and acting that are
inculcated through generations, not just
months.

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