1. Role Of Women In Relation To Mill On The Floss
... mother and her aunts constantly bemoan Maggie's lack of femininity, comparing her unfavourably with the epitome of the feminine ideal, Lucy Deane. In her constant favouring of Tom, Mrs Tulliver repeatedly asserts Maggie's inferior status. Tom asserts his superiority as a male and although they have had a similar view of the future (with Maggie as housekeeper to Tom) his assumption of the role of protector with the power to "punish her when she did wrong ... " differs wildly from hers, where she will assume a conventionally male role as a source of wisdom. Maggie rejects the conventional ...
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