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.
