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Prepared by Nishtha Makwana Roll no. 15 M.A. sem - 2 Paper - Victorian literature 6 Submitted to Department of English, MKU Bhavnagar university
Is Dorothea a conventional Victorian woman?
- George Eliot - Published in 1871 - 1872 in eight parts - Published in four volumes in 1872 - Masterpiece of George Eliot - A study of provincial life
Dorothea - Heroin of the novel - An exceptional woman: she is smart, pious, and beautiful by heart - Desire to help the needy
- Her marriage to Casaubon is driven by her desire to be taught by him, and she devotes herself to him entirely - Problems in her marriage life become his decision to marry with Casaubon was over idealized - She wanted to assist him in his research work
George Eliot and Victorian woman The women in Eliot's novel, though ?ctional, are faced with the same life decisions and responsibilities as the women in Victorian society. - Upper class and middle class Victorian woman - Expected to marry money - Stay home to raise the family - woman, who lacked the opportunity for the kind of education men had
But isn't she a conventional Victorian woman? - Her ?erce determination to take the high road, to express only kindness and patience toward her husband. - She is much obedient and devoted to his husband - After her husband's death why did she not choose to do research or make her career? - it is a shame that for all her ambition, Dorothea was not able to lead a ¡°greater¡± life and leave a more impactful legacy.
The end of the novel - The end of the novel is very disappointed, when she got freedom to do anything, though she married with Will and live an ordinary life. - In the starting of novel we ?nd that she is much di?er from Victorian woman and against the patriarchal society, but when he had the choice she married with Will and stay home to raise the family.
Works Cited Eliot, George. Middlemarch. Ed. Ashton, Rosemary. London: Penguin Books, 1994. Hardy, Barbara. "Middlemarch and the Passions." This Particular Web: Essays on "Middlemarch". Ed. Adam, Ian. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1975.

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Is dorothea a conventional victorian heroine

  • 1. Prepared by Nishtha Makwana Roll no. 15 M.A. sem - 2 Paper - Victorian literature 6 Submitted to Department of English, MKU Bhavnagar university
  • 2. Is Dorothea a conventional Victorian woman?
  • 3. - George Eliot - Published in 1871 - 1872 in eight parts - Published in four volumes in 1872 - Masterpiece of George Eliot - A study of provincial life
  • 4. Dorothea - Heroin of the novel - An exceptional woman: she is smart, pious, and beautiful by heart - Desire to help the needy
  • 5. - Her marriage to Casaubon is driven by her desire to be taught by him, and she devotes herself to him entirely - Problems in her marriage life become his decision to marry with Casaubon was over idealized - She wanted to assist him in his research work
  • 6. George Eliot and Victorian woman The women in Eliot's novel, though ?ctional, are faced with the same life decisions and responsibilities as the women in Victorian society. - Upper class and middle class Victorian woman - Expected to marry money - Stay home to raise the family - woman, who lacked the opportunity for the kind of education men had
  • 7. But isn't she a conventional Victorian woman? - Her ?erce determination to take the high road, to express only kindness and patience toward her husband. - She is much obedient and devoted to his husband - After her husband's death why did she not choose to do research or make her career? - it is a shame that for all her ambition, Dorothea was not able to lead a ¡°greater¡± life and leave a more impactful legacy.
  • 8. The end of the novel - The end of the novel is very disappointed, when she got freedom to do anything, though she married with Will and live an ordinary life. - In the starting of novel we ?nd that she is much di?er from Victorian woman and against the patriarchal society, but when he had the choice she married with Will and stay home to raise the family.
  • 9. Works Cited Eliot, George. Middlemarch. Ed. Ashton, Rosemary. London: Penguin Books, 1994. Hardy, Barbara. "Middlemarch and the Passions." This Particular Web: Essays on "Middlemarch". Ed. Adam, Ian. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1975.