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What does this excerpt from George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion reveal about Eliza’s character?


MRS.  PEARCE:

 Stop, Mr. Higgins.  I won't allow it.  It's you that are wicked.  Go home to your parents, girl; and tell them to take better care of you.

LIZA:  I ain't got no parents.  They told me I was big enough to earn my own living and turned me out.

MRS.  PEARCE:  Where's your mother?

LIZA:  I ain't got no mother.  Her that turned me out was my sixth stepmother.  But I done without them.  And I'm a good girl, I am.


A. Eliza despises her father’s habits
. B. Eliza lives and earns money independently.
C. Eliza misses her childhood home.
D.  Eliza craves a mother’s love.
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the answer is letter: c.

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Answer:

C. Eliza misses her childhood home.

Step-by-step explanation:

In Pygmalion, phonetics educator Henry Higgins takes in a blossom young lady named Eliza Doolittle. He means to transform Eliza into a woman by teaching her elocution.

Eliza ends up being a well-suited understudy and effectively persuades the women at a greenery enclosure party that she's one of them. Nevertheless, Henry never really thinks about her as a woman and still treats her as a servant. She flees, looking for her freedom.

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