Essays on Middlemarch

The status of women in the Victorian era is often seen as an illustration of the striking discrepancy between the United Kingdom's national power and wealth and what many, then and now, consider its appalling social conditions. During the era symbolized by the reign of British monarch Queen Victoria, women did not have suffrage (voting) rights, the right to sue, or the right to own property. At the same time, women participated in the paid workforce in increasing numbers following the ...

Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte, Great Expectations by Charles Dicken’s and Middlemarch by George Eliot simultaneously display the notion that the form is one of the ways it can be understood in relation to the specific historical context from which it emerges. Additionally, they similarly have been shaped by the material conditions of production and reception set in the Victorian Era through social class and conditions. Although Bronte’s Wuthering Heights is a gothic novel, it relates to ...

 Abuse of characters is by and large filled by external causes. On account of Madame Bovary and Middlemarch, outside causes like sex norms result in the oppression of our female counterparts. In Madame Bovary, society's desires of a wifely figure limits Emma's want to climb the social stepping stool. In Middlemarch, the authoritative opinions about female scholarly capacities engendered by characters like Lydgate and Casaubon block Dorothea's capacity to end up noticeably a scholar inside ...

Realism is an imperative theme across Middlemarch and Great Expectations. “The primary aim of realism is to represent real life for the time it is written, and it is the job of the author to create a number of different techniques in order to do so.” There is a substantial variety surrounding the number of truth claims used throughout George Eliot’s Middlemarch and Charles Dickens Great Expectations. These truth claims represent reality in their own ways. In this essay, I will be discussing ...

Marriage — the act of uniting two beings under vows that uphold morals to honor, love and cherish for as long as both partners shall live — is undoubtedly one of the oldest traditions known to human existence. There may not be an era as exceptionally pro marriage as the Victorian period, as it was the societal norm to dictate marriage as the ultimate goal. However, the expectations of marriage seemed to perplex more free-thinking Victorians like the author George Eliot. Such notions are ...

The purpose that the quotations in the essay from George Eliot’s (Mary Anne Evans) novel Middlemarch serve to further Gould’s argument, which is why it’s appropriate to use in the essay. Gould agrees with Elliots argument and that’s why it’s so important to use quotations that support his argument. Gould when introducing quotations from Broca, refers to Elliot to essentially refute what Broca has to say. As Broca has an opposing viewpoint than Gould’s, a balance of evidence I think is needed.I ...

The Nineteenth Century was the period where Queen Victorian ruled Britain for more than 60 years from 1837 to 1901. Those years are remembered as the Victorian Age, which encircle tremendous changes for Great Britain. Change occurred in nearly every aspect of British life in the fields like political institutions and structures, economic and social conditions, trade, science, and technology. Those century families were large and patriarchal. They encouraged hard work, respectability, social ...

George Eliot introduces a fascinating metaphor in Middlemarch in order to make the claim that the world does not have any inherent order; individual perspectives create different illusions of the world. The compelling central image of the pier-glass allows for different layers of Eliot’s metaphor to permeate throughout the section of text. At first read, the pier-glass seems to simply describe Eliot’s thoughts about Rosamond’s vanity and while valid, the metaphor goes beyond a single character ...

The realist literary movement came about in the latter half of the 19th century as a reaction to the ideals of the Romantic period which preceded it. While the works of Romantic authors were characterized by an emphasis on imagination and emotion, the Realists were primarily concerned with depicting life as a portrayal of reality —unpredictable, ambiguous and complex. Realist writing was characterized by its attentiveness to detail and its focus on character (rather than plot) development. ...