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A New Heroine: Renovation Of The Saint Theresa Archetype In George Eliot’S Middlemarch, Aaron Elijah Sims
A New Heroine: Renovation Of The Saint Theresa Archetype In George Eliot’S Middlemarch, Aaron Elijah Sims
Seaver College Research And Scholarly Achievement Symposium
Dorothea Brooke is a passionate, capable woman in George Eliot’s Middlemarch, but she is tragically portrayed as an updated version of Saint Theresa of Avila from Catholic Mythology. The novel opens, “Here and there is born a Saint Theresa, foundress of nothing, whose loving heartbeats and sobs after an unattained goodness tremble off and are dispersed among hindrances, instead of centering in some long-recognizable deed” (Eliot 2). There is nothing dishonorable in being a woman of loving heartbeats who sobs for unattained goodness; however, the inconvenient reality is that sobbing will not achieve any practical good, and passionate, able women …
The Art Of Perception: An Analysis Of How A Desired Public Image Affects One’S Actions, Alexandria Mccollum
The Art Of Perception: An Analysis Of How A Desired Public Image Affects One’S Actions, Alexandria Mccollum
Seaver College Research And Scholarly Achievement Symposium
Written in 1859, Adam Bede was George Eliot’s first novel and marked the beginning of her fascination with class distinction and social perception. The main characters of her novel, Adam Bede and Hetty Sorrel, find themselves engaged in efforts in maintain their respective images, fulfill societal expectations, and transcend class distinctions. Initially, Adam is painted by Eliot as a devoted, hardworking, hypercritical man while Hetty is depicted as childlike and innocent. As each character struggles to maintain her/his public image and find their place in the class system, they encounter challenges that call for reevaluation of the importance of image. …