Mr. Doolittle inheriting the great sum of money was a bit far fetched. It was a good example of how people are treated differently because of social rank. Like how all of these long lost relatives appear out of now where to ask for money, but it was an event that was hard for me to believe.
I found what Eliza's says at the end of the book to be very interesting. "The difference between and lady and a flower girl is not how she behaves, but how she is treated." This can be assumed with almost anything. Kings do not always act like royalty. They can be rude, selfish, greedy, and quite unfit to rule, but it is how the king's subjects view and treat the king that gives him power. For example, giving a King respect and responsibility gives a king power. Giving a king insults and criticism allows his subjects to object to his power. This was proven in Pygmalion because Eliza sometimes did have a bad temper throughout the book, but when she was just a flower girl, she was often criticized and blamed. When she assumed the appearance of a duchess her temper remained the same, but was treated differently because of her social rank. She was treated differently by everyone except Pickering.
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