Download - Politics of Relationship in Middlemarch
Name: Neha Mehta.
Class: M.A.Sem-2.
Roll No.:15
Subject: The Victorian Age.
Submitted to: Smt.S.B.Gardi,
Department of
English
M.K.Bhavnagar
University.
Introduction
1871 a novel by George Eliot about the people who live in an imaginary town inn central England called Middlemarch during a time of social and economic change.
Many people consider it to be one of the greatest novels in English literature.
Four “P”
Politics of relationship
pride
prejudice
politics
power
The novel indirectly to more important concerns, such as the relationship between decision and determinism.
The different relationship of parents to children is especially well illustrated.
Fred Vincy enlists his help in courting Mary Garth.
Class distinction
Society
Upper class
Middle class
Lower class
Gender issues and class distinction :
The novel can be read as female subjugation in the patriarchal system.
Gender roles within the time which portrays the state of the society with her complex character and marriages full of frustration and disappointment.
She fails to beck free completely from the society pressures.
The theme of artificial class distinction and the theme of artificial gender distinction and Casaubon is the personification of both these inequalities.
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