1. Role Of Women In Mill On The Floss
As you read Maggie's story, the connections we can draw between her life story - particularly its often-unfulfilled ambitions - and Victorian constructions of femininity. ... Still more painfully, she finds her own nature divided between the claims of moral responsibility and her passionate hunger for self-fulfilment. ... Eventually, this longing and need for escape becomes a destructive desire for oblivion, as increasingly the social pressures and Maggie's own sense of what is morally right prevent the fulfilment of her desires and ambitions. ...
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