Victorian Patriarchy in The Mill on the Floss

drill Experience:\nMaggie Tullivers brush with Victorian Patriarchy in The Mill on the floss\n\n\nI. Introduction\nMaggie Tulliver, heroine of George Eliots noted novel The Mill on the Floss, is portrayed not further as a ablaze and loving girl, tho in addition as a non-conforming individual. She struggles to prove against inhibit neighborly conventions, but falls victim to her sad experiences of a ruined family, the maligned re come outation and the eventual drowning. From girlhood to womanhood, she is confront with different kinds of patriarchal onerousness: as a girl, she has to put up with ladies behavioral codes obligate upon her mainly by her drive and maternal aunts, while as a woman she is much troubled by her laminitiss ill-judged plague for lawyer Wakem. Different from a significant number of advanced(a) critics who tend to view Maggie as a victim to her lush passion or to the stifling social environment close to her, this thesis considers Maggie as a rebel instead of a passive victim, who struggles against Victorian patriarchate. quite of submitting to the requirements for a Victorian lady, she strives to grass through her limited social role and actively recruit in the male-dominated world in various ways, one of which is criminal record instruction. This activity lasts from her childhood to her womanhood, representing her meeting with Victorian patriarchy on the religious level. In her childhood readings, she attempts to win admiration by asserting her quick-wittedness that is no inferior to her male counterparts; later, as she enters her trouble-inflicted womanhood, she seeks spiritual guidance by reading Christian doctrines or the books lent by Philip, so as to free herself from the constraints of patriarchy and family narrow-mindedness.\nThis thesis analyzes Maggies reading experience, to examine how it changes over her spiritual Bildung and how it reflects her confrontation with patriarchal values. This thesis ob. ..