Effects Of Pride In Pygmalion

Pride is the feeling of satisfaction from one’s accomplishments, usually resulting in a complete overestimation of one’s capabilities. Out of all the seven deadly sins pride is the most dangerous. Pride is detrimental to society, and to personal health because it ruins relationships, causes people to be narcissistic, and it leads individuals to believe that they are superior to others.
Pride is responsible for ending many relationships. In a relationship where everyone is prideful, nobody will admit they are wrong. This poses a serious problem. In Pygmalion, the main characters are Eliza and Higgins. Professor Higgins is arrogant and overbearingly condescending. Throughout the entire play Higgins is very rude to Eliza. He calls her names like a draggletailed guttersnipe and a squashed cabbage leaf. When Eliza finally leaves Higgins, he is too prideful to stop her. If he had admitted that he was careless to her feelings, she might have stayed. They could have been together if he had just a little bit of humility. Pride causes people to be narcissistic and arrogant. In Disney’s, “Beauty and the Beast”, Gaston is narcissism personified. In the movie, he wants to marry

An example of this is Odysseus, from the Odyssey. Odysseus is the poster child of hubris. Hubris is a Greek trait that means excessive pride and arrogance, and causes the most downfalls of heroes in Greek literature. Characters displaying this harmful trait think of themselves as greater than other people. In Odysseus’ story, he boasts to Polyphemus after he blinds, and escapes from him. The Cyclops then asks for his father, Poseidon, to put his wrath on Odysseus and his crew. In the Odyssey, and several other pieces of Greek literature, anytime that a character showed pride he was severely punished. The author of the Odyssey, Homer, obviously believed that pride was not a good thing for people to