How Does Shaw Explore the Artificiality of Class Distinctions Throughout pygmalion?

How does Shaw explore the artificiality of class distinctions throughout Pygmalion?

During the lecture of the play Pygmalion, we can clearly see how Bernard Shaw explores the artificiality of class distinctions. He explores clearly, three different classes.

He explores the high, low and middle class in the 20th century, England. High class being only bloodline, middle class being those who are wealthy and lower class considering peasants and workers. He satires and exaggerates each class (specially the richest) in a way that makes them seem shallow, selfish and simply artificial.

Character-wise, the first-class distinction is when we notice that Higgins, Freddy and his sister, his mother... they all belong to the upper middle class in the street, then goes along with Higgin’s mother, his partner, and the people he takes Eliza to meet. Eliza, on the other hand, was from the lower class as she was a flower girl. Bernard Shaw made it seem like someone’s decency was very clear thanks to their wealth, clothes, accent, language and phonetics. Therefore, when Eliza, a flower girl who is clearly lower class and very badly spoken, decides to change her fate and convert herself into a ‘lady. ‘Bernard Shaw makes the lower class, characteristic on bad clothes, and bad manners and vocabulary. He also makes it look like the lack of manners in the lower class implies a lack of morals. The lack of morals can be seen to be thanks to the lack of money since they are uneducated. In other words, it demonstrates a shallow society where being poor or from the lower class is considered being a brute, leaving someone’s values as a good person totally aside and irrelevant. This is obviously unfair: we can see how Eliza, since even after her poor manners, she will always be a better person than Higgins. Higgins however, having all the wealth and richness in the world, is a hateful man. The fact that later the play Eliza, being the same person with both rich and poor personalities, can fool anyone at an important ambassador’s party and make anyone think of her as being a princess demonstrates the type of superficial and hypocritical common thinking everyone possessed. He showed how anyone can fake themselves into positions of power in society. Shaw clearly implies by all this that you may rise in your own society status by improving vocabulary