My Fair Lady: What does the play show us of the society of its time?
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What does the play show us of the society of its time? The working class were classified as upper working class or lower working class. They were either desperately poor or, former upper-class people who had fallen into poverty after being rich previously in their life for a variety of different reasons. Either way they were then expected to work hard to support themselves. The middle class were similar to higher class except less grand. They mainly depended on marriage and their money being earned by the inheritance of the males. There is not a huge difference between the quality of the people from the lower working and upper working class or middle class yet the working class are still looked upon by the higher classes as if they were less superior just because of their lack of education. "The English that will keep her in the gutter to the end of her days."...


