Henry Higgins is one of the main characters of the play <em>Pygmalion</em>, by George Bernard Shaw. In the play, Higgins is a professor of phonetics who tends to reduce people and their dialects to phonetic terms he can understand. Higgins is not well-adapted to high society, and he tends to be inconsiderate of social norms. He can also be a little bit of a bully. In the play, Higgins is the character who claims that he cannot love any woman but his own mother.
