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This 9 page paper discusses the works Adam Bede, Scenes from a Clerical Life and Middlemarch in which feminist ideas are portrayed. Examples are drawn from text and cited. A brief discussion about the Victorian Era and Eliot's life are included as well. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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into the coarse emotion of mankind; and perhaps our frames could hardly bear much of it. (Eliot, Middlemarch, ch.20) Marian Evans
was outraged. Viewing the constant way in which women were subjugated on a routine basis to the whims and directives of a male dominated society, she opted for the alternative.
Maybe it was the climate in which she found herself. Maybe it was the fact that she was a creative person without an outlet. Or maybe the time was just
right for Marian Evans to assume the name, George Eliot. The issue of Womens Rights was a hot bed of contention during this time. Women were relegated to second class
citizens. Women were not allowed to vote, to be seen in public without an escort, or to hold property or handle financial matters. A common thread seems to run throughout
Eliots novels which include the treatment of women and the beginning of the womens suffrage movement. This is evidenced by the ironic line from Adam Bede. "Doubtless a great
anguish may do the work of years, and we may come out from that baptism of fire with a soul full of new awe and new pity"(Eliot, 427-28).
In her novels, Eliot seems to rail against the fact that a woman must be a certain type of person and act a certain way
in order to be respected, accepted, and successful. The woman that achieves all of this is the perfect lady. The perfect lady is representative of the times, and Eliot exploits
this so called perfection to show that her society was quite the opposite when it came to the lives of women. However, one
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