1. • Paper – 6 The Victorian Literature
Name – Dabhi Vipul
Roll No – 35
Enrollment No – 2069108420180009
M.A. Sem – 2
Batch – 2017-19
Topic – Role of women in Middle March and in contemporary times
Email address – dabhivc04@gmail.com
Submitted to – Department of English MKBU
2. Role of women in Middle March and in
Contemporary times
Dorothea Brooke Change in Women’s position
3. Introduction
“Middle March” is a novel written by George Eliot ( Mary Ann Evans).
Published During 1871-72.
Significant theme of the novel is :
1. Status of Women
2. The nature of marriage
3. Self Interest
4. Political Reforms
5. Education
6. Realism
7. Hypocrisy
4. Main women characters
Dorothea Brooke
1. An intelligent, wealthy woman with great aspirations.
Mary Garth
1. The practical, plain, kind daughter of Caleb and Susan Garth.
Rosamond Vincy
1. Vain, Beautiful, shallow woman.
5. Role of women in the novel and in the
Victorian era
Women were considered as they have not at all need of education.
Females were considered to be inferior to men.
Limited opportunities for the women of that age.
Profession for them during that age was the wife hood or the service of their
husbands.
Virginia Woolf – “ The Angel of the house “.
Women were suffering between idealism and realism.
Women were said to adhere to traditional gender roles of rising family and
responsible for the management of the domestic affairs.
Women as a dependents.
Women as a object of love, with main purpose is to marry.
6. Role of women in Films and in Society
Gender inequality Gender inequality
9. films in which we found change
Deepa Mehta’s films
1. Water
2. Earth
3. Fire
Bawander – Based on Bhawari Devi of Rajasthan
In all this films we found changes. The another interesting thing we found
is that if director of the movie is lady than there will be more females
characters and also in power position.
10. Lives life as per their own thinking
Jab We Met
We finds the features like
1. Vivacious
2. Intelligent
3. Strong
4. Gullible in love
Piku
12. Conclusion
So here I am concluding my topic. And we come to know that we can found
the changes in contemporary times but some hoe some of the things are still
seen problematic.
George Eliot herself experienced this all things and she felt that we have our
own life and we can be independent from the rules of men.
Ultimately it says that develop self independency.