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Act V
After Higgins, confesses to his undying love for Eliza. Eliza decides to leave Higgins’s home because felt that it would only hurt Higgins more to have her stay another moment in his home because she did not share the same feelings for him. She now resides at the home of Mrs. Higgins.
Mrs. Higgins’s drawing room. She is at her writing-table as before. The parlor-maid comes in.
THE PARLOR MAID [at the door]: Mr. Henry, madam, is downstairs
MRS. HIGGINS: Well, show him up.
THE PARLOR-MAID: He’s using the telephone, madam, phoning the police, I think
MRS.HIGGINS: What!
THE PARLOR-MAID [coming further in and lowering her voice]: Mr. Henry is in a state, madam. I thought I’d better tell you.
MRS. HIGGINS: If you had told me that Mr. Henry was not in a state it would have been more surprising. Tell them to come up when he’s finished with the police,. I suppose he’s lost something.
THE PARLOR-MAID: yes, madam [going]
MRS. HIGGINS: Go upstairs and tell Miss Doolittle that Mr. Henry is here. Please tell her that she mustn’t come down until I call for her.
THE PARLOR-MAID: Yes, madam
Higgins bursts in. he is, as the parlor-maid has said in a state.
HIGGINS: Look here, mother; a terrible thing has happened.
MRS. HIGGINS: Yes dear, Good-morning [He checks his impatience and kisses her, whilst the parlor-maid goes out]. What are you talking about?
HIGGINS: Eliza has left me!
MRS.HIGGINS: What did you do? You had to have frightened her!!
HIGGINS: But I did what you told me to I told her how I felt about her…
MRS. HIGGINS: Oh my word, my son has taken words of advise from me….
HIGGINS: I told her how I felt about her; nevertheless she turned away from me and left in the middle of the night. She over heard the conversation between the Colonel and I and how I gloated on how I changed Eliza.
MRS. HIGGINS: In that case Henry she had every right to leave.
HIGGINS: But mother, I’ve never felt this way before. I’ve sent the police looking for her.
MRS. HIGGINS: Now, what are the police going to do?
HIGGINS: What they’re paid to do, their job.
MRS. HIGGINS: Henry, she left because she wanted to. [Calls for the parlor-maid and signals her get Eliza
HIGGINS [Without notice he rambles on]: I left my pride behind to tell her how I felt about her and how I have grow...
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HIGGINS: No I am not
ELIZA: I am not your ginny pig anymore, go and experiment on another poor helpless young girl
HIGGINS: Eliza please just give me a chance.
ELIZA: I use to think I loved you…
HIGGINS: What!
ELIZA: …but now I know that you were just using me as an experiment to gloat to your friends about.
HIGGINS: Eliza, don’t say that
ELIZA: It’s the truth, you wanted for your trophy, not the you love and would forever.
HIGGINS: Stop with the stupidity and come home I love you and I want you to stay with me
ELIZA: I can’t come home with you.
HIGGINS: Why not Eliza?
Eliza looks at Henry in silence and then looks away. Henry holds her by her elbows.
ELIZA: Because…
HIGGINS: Because what? I love you isn’t that enough?
ELIZA: No, because I don’t love you Henry
Higgins looks at Eliza confused and speechless.
ELIZA: I can’t marry you because I am marrying Eddie.
HIGGINS: What!!
ELIZA: And you can’t change my mind.
Eliza exit the drawing room and leaves Henry standing there. Henry doesn’t know what to do but only to go home. He leaves the room and says goodbye to his mother. He feels ashamed and brokenhearted. The woman
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Jane is told that she must go to the Red Room she says 'O Aunt! Have
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As to the relationship with their teachers, both students become more self-confident and their teachers become dependent on them, be it in a materialistic or personal way. Yet it is Eliza who complains about Higgins ignorance and carelessness whereas Frank reproaches Rita for her superficiality. At the end Eliza has regained her pride and improved her standard of living although Eliza remaining a social misfit.
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Aunt Leslie then snapped me out of my deep thought asking whether I was okay. I told her I was even if it was obviously a complete lie. "So shall we go back to Geraldine tomorrow morning? Or would you like to leave in the evening?"
I don’t matter, I suppose’” (Berst 99). Eliza’s actions can be felt as a Cinderella impulse coming from her (Berst 99). Eliza worked hard to get through the lessons with Higgins and had won that bet, so she deserves the credit for the hard work she put in. It seems that Eliza at this point is lonely and probably wanted someone in her life to tell her she was doing the right thing, she has accomplished things she wanted to do for herself.
Abstract: Critical thinkers are active in their process of the mind. Many times people use critical thinking and do not realize we are even doing so. Critical thinking/logic has had a long history in math. This critical and systemic process is used for problem solving, evaluation, analysis, and synthesis. In this paper I will discuss the history of critical thinking and how we use critical thinking in the form of mathematical applications.