Writing prompts help build the ability to respond to questions,
and they help writers get their ideas down.
Over the course of time, they build writing fluency and proficiency as well.
Please give serious consideration to the prompt, doing so will highlight connections in the texts we read. Please use all of the time provided -- keep writing even when you think you're out of ideas. Remember, writing is a thinking process; the more you write, the more you think! Although I do not assess daily writing responses for conventions, use them to practice your skills – try to write in complete sentences (avoid fragments, run-ons, and comma-splices) and develop other good habits (e.g., capitalization, punctuation)
Writing Prompt – Morality, Class, and Economics
Eliza’s father, Alfred Doolittle, says middle class morality is “just an excuse for never giving me anything” (Shaw 57). He later implies that as Eliza rises in social status, she’ll pick up “free-and-easy ways” (Shaw 61). Lastly, Doolittle refuses to take more money even though Higgins offers it because “it makes a man feel prudent like; and then goodbye to happiness” (Shaw 59). Eliza even considers bathing and her own reflection indecent.
In a way, Shaw uses the character Doolittle to critique morality at all levels, and he compels us to question: How is morality dependent on social or economic class? How does poverty, wealth, or belonging to the middle class affect morality? Can a poor man adhere to the same morals as a rich man? Is one economic or social class more or less moral than another or just different? Consider the potential moral failings of the privileged and wealthy, their abuses of power, their pretentiousness. List some of the differences between the ethics, generally speaking, of the poor, the middle class, and the wealthy.
Consider if those perceived differences are based on stereotyping or actual verifiable evidence, data, or experience.