| Alfie D. a villain? |
| Last Edit: StageDoorJohnny 06:50 pm EDT 04/05/18 |
| Posted by: StageDoorJohnny 06:50 pm EDT 04/05/18 |
| In reply to: re: The Painstaking Detail That Went Into Lauren Ambrose’s My Fair Lady Hat - Michael_Portantiere 03:42 pm EDT 04/05/18 |
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| Really, corporal punishment in 1914 -- how shocking - pfft! If you don't like it, that's fine and I have no problem with that, but expecting characters to conform to today's sensitivities is silly. Do you call Macbeth stupid because he believes in witches and prophecy? As to Eliza and Alfie's relationship, at the tea party/Ascot scene, who is it that Eliza speaks of admiringly? Alfie. The only time in MFL of physical abuse is threatened is when Higgins raises his hand to Eliza. Alfie never says he's hit Eliza, he suggests that Higgins do it. Spare the rod sort of thing. in the long run, the way society treats Eliza because of her dialect is far more damaging |
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