Satire is a literary device is which human folly are held up to scorn and ridicule. An example of satire in Pygmalion is when Doolittle says, "Take my advice Governor- marry Eliza while she's young and don't know better. If you don't you'll be sorry for it after. If you do, she'll be sorry for it after; but better her than you, because you're a man, and she's only a woman and don't know to be happy anyhow." The writer is using satire to make a poke at women and say how women are never happy.