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Gender Tragedy In George Eliot's "Mill On The Floss", Elizabeth Anne Nielsen
Gender Tragedy In George Eliot's "Mill On The Floss", Elizabeth Anne Nielsen
UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations
This thesis centers around the gender roles present during the Victorian era and how George Eliot examined these roles in Mill on the Floss. She did so through her representations of Tom and Maggie Tulliver and by examining how each of these characters deal with the respective roles for his or her gender while living during the Victorian age. Tom strictly follows the imposed roles for his gender, while Maggie refuses to live within the social boundaries set for her own. The societal restrictions and how each deals with them is symbolically represented in their physical descriptions as well. Each …
George Eliot: Beyond Feminism, Mary J Dengler
George Eliot: Beyond Feminism, Mary J Dengler
UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations
The three central conflicts of George Eliot's life--an emotional conflict with male rejection, an intellectual conflict with orthodox Christianity, and a gender conflict with the limitations imposed on women--can be attributed largely to the nineteenth-century feminine ideologies. While Eliot used her nonfiction to criticize the ideas responsible for her conflicts, she used her poetry and fiction to dramatize the conflicts and develop an ideal of humanity. Eliot considered feminism, in Romola, as a resolution to these conflicts, then moved beyond feminism to develop her human ideal. This ideal, which transcends gender ideologies in response to natural and moral law, posits …