1. What impression do you form of Eliza Doolittle from this play? Give reasons.
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Explanation:
Eliza loves Freddy, but the story of their love and marriage has not been depicted in the play itself. It has been completed through an appendix which Shaw has added to the play. In this appendix, we are told that Eliza does get married to Freddy and, with the financial backing of Colonel Pickering, sets up a flower-shop where subsequently vegetables are also sold. We are also told that Eliza begins to live once again with Higgins and Pickering and that her husband also begins living in that household. By this arrangement, Eliza continues to render her services to Higgins to which he had become accustomed and for which she had become almost indispensable to him. The reasons for her preferring Freddy to the much older Higgins and Pickering are also explained. The Life Force instinctively prompted her to her choice, because Freddy would make a better father to her children than the two confirmed old bachelors. Thus Eliza Doolittle provides us with another illustration of the Life Force.