Troubled victorian femininity : George Eliot' The mill on the floss as a case study
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2015
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university of Oum-El-Bouaghi
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The Victorian age, as an age of men and totally neglected women, with its unfair principles imposed on women has created many intelligent females. George Eliot is one of those females who imposed herself and her works to be taken into consideration by her exquisite writing technique. One of her early famous works is her novel The Mill on the Floss, this novel is considered approximately her real life in which she suffered from inferiority and mistreatment. This fact makes this novel a point of interest for this study since it tends to analyse the psychology of Victorian females through the analysis of the protagonist's personality. This dissertation is made up of three chapters. The first chapter is a theoretical chapter in which the Victorian age is explained through a short biography of the pioneer of the era, Queen Victoria, in addition to the circumstances of the age and the division of the society then. Another point that is developed in the chapter is literature of the age, to go in specific to George Eliot's life and works. The last element of this chapter is the description of the theories to be used in this study which are Psychoanalysis theory and Object Relations theory. The second is a practical chapter in which the protagonist, Maggie, personality is analysed according to Object Relations theory. This means that it is analysed according to Maggie's relations. The third and the last chapter is the second practical chapter in which the Freudian Psychoanalysis theory is applied to see how does Maggie build her personality through the three components of the psyche, the Id, Ego, and Superego.
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Novel : George Eliot : The Mill on the Floss