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Feminism In George Eliot's The Mill On The Floss

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Feminism is a group of ideologies and movements that focused on defending and establishing as well as defining equal political, economic, and social rights for women, seeking to establish for women equal opportunities in education and occupation. Women 's movement struggles hardly against women’s oppression in order to change women’s position and status in the society. According to feminists, women’s position in society is unequal to that of men, and that society is structured to asset men to the economic, social, political women’s detriment. However, many different theories have used by feminists to explain these inequalities and advocate different ways of redressing inequalities. Certain features of depression in George Eliot’s novel The Mill on the Floss lend the novel to a feminist reading. Feminists state that society is an oppressive patriarchy which chiefly oppresses women, so that patriarchy must be abolished. Eliot’s novel The Mill on the Floss portrays the Victorian value system and gives an account of the position of women in the Victorian age. In The Mill on the Floss , Maggie is the main character that sounds to cast-off all traditional ideas about women, and is defeated in such a way by the suppressed society of that time. Maggie is exposed to a patriarchal society in which men acquire higher privileges and status than that of women’s. In the novel, the dominate figure of Maggie’s family is her father ,Mr Tulliver. Because he is the dean of
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