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Language, Class, and Morality The relationship amongst social class, language skills, and morality are often underestimated. A person can be judged on his or her social class based on his or her language skills. This leads to the fact that one’s morality is often affected by his or her social class. In G. Bernard Shaw’s play “Pygmalion”, proves that a character’s social class is determined by his or her use of language. The relationship between social class and morality also occurs in the play. The play proves that a person belonging to a higher class does not necessarily behave more moral than a person of lower status. In the play “Pygmalion,” the concepts are clear that language skills have an effect on a person’s social class and a person’s social class has an effect on morality, but stereotyping a person’s social class based on language skills does not determine the person to be moral or immoral based on his or her social class. “Pygmalion” is a story about several characters. One of the main characters is a little girl named Eliza who is poor, not well mannered, and speaks very uneducated. Then there is Higgins, a middle age man who is a person of higher status, very well educated, and is a professional on phonetics, the science of speech.
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