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

Belle, but it is very obvious that his one true love is his self. Gaston’s opinion on women is that they are objects, and he needs the most beautiful one. When Belle and the Beast are together, Gaston attempts to steal Belle away from the beast. When he fails, his vanity leads him to the attempted murder the Beast. Many other Disney characters are prideful, however none of them are as in love with their own existence as Gaston. Some examples are The Evil Queen in “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” and Rabbit from “Winnie the Pooh”. The Evil Queen wants to be the "fairest in the land", which makes her extremely vain. Rabbit is a narcissist and a control freak, only caring about himself and maintaining his garden. He does not show compassion for other people, choosing malicious punishments when his friends ruin his garden.
Pride leads individuals to believe that they are superior to everybody else.

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

possess.
Philosophers keep a special place in their hearts for pride, as opposed to all of the other sins. This is due to the fact that pride is like a coin; meaning it has two sides. The sides are good pride and bad pride. Good pride shows self-respect and self-worth, while bad pride is the deadly sin of arrogance and the belief of entitlement. Our world today would be very different if everybody had pride. If everyone had pride, nobody would be happy, and there would always be a loser. The world would also be very different if nobody had pride. The world would be full of figurative doormats, there would be no competition, and nothing would get done because there would not be a person confident enough to do it.