“What is middle class morality? Just an excuse for not giving me anything,” says Alfred Doolittle, a character in Bernard Shaw’s play, Pygmalion [which became the celebrated movie, My Fair Lady .] Doolittle thinks that the middle class deprives people like him of many things like good food or some pleasures of life. So Doolittle is an outlier. An outlier, according to the dictionary, is “a person or thing situated away or detached from the main body or system.” Professor Higgins in the same play is also an outlier. If Doolittle is below the middle class in hierarchy, Higgins is above it. Doolittle needs the middle class for his financial needs. He needs the job provided by the middle class even if it means carrying the trash of that class. He is only happy to receive charities from the middle class organisations. Higgins does not care for the middle class any more than he would care for people like Doolittle. In fact, Higgin...
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