Pygmalion

Pygmalion

how do Higgins social status and bachelorhood as well as the era in which he lives make the question of Eliza living in his home a big potentially scandalous issue

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For a single man to have a young woman, who was not his wife living in his home was completely scandalous. The young woman's reputation would have been ruined, her prospects for a good marriage would have been destroyed. Theirs was not a socially acceptable situation.

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