This document discusses the role of women in George Eliot's novel Middle March and Victorian society, as well as contemporary times. In the novel and Victorian era, women had little education and opportunities, and were expected to serve their husbands and manage the home. Some key female characters in Middle March are Dorothea Brooke, an intelligent woman with aspirations, and Rosamond Vincy, a vain woman. While progress has been made in more recent films showing stronger female leads, patriarchy and gender inequality still exist to some degree in society and films today.

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

7. Patriarchy still found in the films
Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge Dil Dhadakne Do

8. Change is coming

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

11. Still changes are necessary

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.