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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