The novel The Mill on the Floss is a semi-autobiography which has much value in exploring Eliot's special feministic view.The change of Maggie's personality in her growing up process and her choice in kinship ...The novel The Mill on the Floss is a semi-autobiography which has much value in exploring Eliot's special feministic view.The change of Maggie's personality in her growing up process and her choice in kinship and romantic relatiomhip reveals the duality of Eliot's feminism.On the one hand,she holds that women should have self-consciousness and the bisexual dualism holds little ground.On the other hand,Eliot also advocates women's serf-denial,obedience and serf-sacrifice in lfie.This essay aims to analyze the duality of Eliot's feministic viewpoint in comideration of the social background in Victorian Age and point out the the implicit feminism view in the fate of Maggie.展开更多
This paper is to explore Maggie＇s dream in The Mill on the Floss （1980） and how it both discloses the complicated inner world of the protagonist and forecasts the plot development. In this episode, Maggie has to be...This paper is to explore Maggie＇s dream in The Mill on the Floss （1980） and how it both discloses the complicated inner world of the protagonist and forecasts the plot development. In this episode, Maggie has to be faced with all the important relations of her life, each making different claims on her conscience. It is also the critical moment when Maggie achieves sober self-knowledge, therefore coming to the hardest decision in the choice between family, love and friendship. It juxtaposes illusion and reality through multiple levels of overlapping in images and scenes, which illustrates how unconscious feelings work effect on Maggie＇s conscious action. This episode is typical of George Eliot＇s literary presentation of unconscious, which not only reveals her keen observation of human psyche, but also demonstrates the general achievement of the 19th century psychologists in the related field.展开更多
文摘The novel The Mill on the Floss is a semi-autobiography which has much value in exploring Eliot's special feministic view.The change of Maggie's personality in her growing up process and her choice in kinship and romantic relatiomhip reveals the duality of Eliot's feminism.On the one hand,she holds that women should have self-consciousness and the bisexual dualism holds little ground.On the other hand,Eliot also advocates women's serf-denial,obedience and serf-sacrifice in lfie.This essay aims to analyze the duality of Eliot's feministic viewpoint in comideration of the social background in Victorian Age and point out the the implicit feminism view in the fate of Maggie.
文摘This paper is to explore Maggie＇s dream in The Mill on the Floss （1980） and how it both discloses the complicated inner world of the protagonist and forecasts the plot development. In this episode, Maggie has to be faced with all the important relations of her life, each making different claims on her conscience. It is also the critical moment when Maggie achieves sober self-knowledge, therefore coming to the hardest decision in the choice between family, love and friendship. It juxtaposes illusion and reality through multiple levels of overlapping in images and scenes, which illustrates how unconscious feelings work effect on Maggie＇s conscious action. This episode is typical of George Eliot＇s literary presentation of unconscious, which not only reveals her keen observation of human psyche, but also demonstrates the general achievement of the 19th century psychologists in the related field.
