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- 1. NAME:- SEJAL R PARMAR SEM:- 2 ENROLLMENT NO:- 2069108420190033 YEAR:- 2018-2020 EMAIL:- sejalparmar095@gmail.com PAPER:- THE VICTORIAN LITARATURE TOPIC:-FEMININE ASPECT IN ‘MIDDLE MARCH’ SUBMITTED TO:- DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH , MKBU
- 3. GEORGE ELIOT Born 22 of November, 1819 Place of birth- Chilvers Coton, England Occupation- author and Journalist Death-22 December, 1880 Wrote books exploring Human psychology Her works noted for its Realism. Influenced by Jane Austen.
- 4. WOMANHOOD IN VICTORIAN BRITAIN Ideal woman Her place in two different Her suggestive ‘dressing’ Her social functions.
- 6. TWO DIFFERENT SPHERES Two spheres Private sphere Public sphere For woman – at home for household. For men – at workplace business, commerce and politics.
- 7. DRESSING OF WOMAN Woman’s clothes began to mirror women's function. In 19th century women's fashion became more sexual. By wearing dresses that resembled their furnishing. Thus, the female body was dressed to emphasize a woman's
- 8. HER SOCIAL FUNCTION WIFE:- being a wife she knows her husbands need. MOTHER:- motherhood was woman's highest achievement. The childless single woman was a figure to be pitied. Domestic Manager:- sexual hierarchy doesn’t allow woman at work sphere. But, can manage house well.
- 9. MAJOR FEMALE CHARACTERS. Dorothea Brooke. Mary Garth. Rosamond Vincy.
- 10. DOROTHEA BROOK Is an intelligent, wealthy woman with great aspirations. Dorothea avoids displaying her wealth.
- 11. MARY GARTH The practical, plain, and kind daughter of Caleb and Susan Garth, she works as Mr. hearthstones' nurse. She and Fred Vincy were childhood sweethearts, but she refuses to allow him to woo him until he shows himself willing and able to live seriously, practically, and sincerely.
- 12. ROSAMOND VINCY Is vain, beautiful, and shallow woman, Rosamond has a high opinion of her own charms and a low opinion of middle march society. She marries Tertius Lydgate because she believes that he will raise her social standing and keep her comfortable. When her husband encounters financial difficulties, she thwarts his efforts to economize, seeing such sacrifices as beneath her and insulting. She is unable to bear the idea of losing status in middle march society.
- 13. WHY MATRIMONY IS THE ONLY THING WHICH CAN GIVE STATIC LIFE TO THE WOMAN? She was not independent. ‘intelligent’, though domestic life remains her world. She remains fully dependent on first father and then the husband.
- 14. ELIOT’S CONCERN ABOUT ‘WHAT’? ‘ To help’ was the only purpose of Dorothea to Marry Casaubon? Did Eliot try to criticize patriarchal society of her time? What is the prime concern of Eliot to portray woman in subjugated way in her novel? Why matrimony remains the ‘only fate’ of a ‘woman’?