摘要
Rosamond Vincy is the most beautiful woman in Middlemarch and she becomes the ideal wife in men's mind. However, her marriage ends up with failure and tragedy and it is the patriarchal restrictions which should be blamed for. By Rosamond's story, Eliot intends to expose and condemn the restrictions on women and the unjustifiable criteria used to judge women in the patriarchal society.
Rosamond Vincy is the most beautiful woman in Middlemarch and she becomes the ideal wife in men’s mind. However, her marriage ends up with failure and tragedy and it is the patriarchal restrictions which should be blamed for. By Rosamond’s story, Eliot intends to expose and condemn the restrictions on women and the unjustifiable criteria used to judge women in the patriarchal society.