GENDER INEQUALITY OF MAGGIE’S LIFE IN GEORGE ELIOT’S THE MILL ON THE FLOSS: A FEMINIST APPROACH
This research paper is primarily intended to identify how the major character struggles for get equality with man in George Eliot’s The Mill on the Floss viewed from Feminist approach and to analyze the novel based on its structural elements. In analyzing The Mill on the Floss, the wri...
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2007
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| Summary: | This research paper is primarily intended to identify how the major
character struggles for get equality with man in George Eliot’s The Mill on the
Floss viewed from Feminist approach and to analyze the novel based on its
structural elements.
In analyzing The Mill on the Floss, the writer uses descriptive library
method and feminist approach. The data sources are primary and secondary data
sources. The method of the data of the data collection is literary research. The
technique of data analysis is descriptive analysis.
The outcome of the study shows the following conclusions. First, the story
reflects the rural life during the 19th
in the town of St. Ogg’s near the river Floss.
Second, it describes Maggie’s struggle to get equality for her brother. Maggie and
Tom Tulliver endure childhood and young adulthood while experiencing the harsh
realities of poverty, devotion and love. At last it is known that Maggie who is a
representation of women in Victorian Age has struggled to win the approval of his
brother. She also refuses to obey her brother and lives independently. She earns
money by working as a teacher. And her effort to be independent and not being
dependent with her brother is categorized as feminism attitude.
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