The mill on the floss by George Eliot

          

The mill on the floss by George Eliot

·        Review about George Eliot’s  novel “The mill on the floss”

As we studies about Victorian age in many novelist, poets, writer and how the Victorian society in changes and reality of Victorian age people. George Eliot has feminist writer and she is most of the work in women are center in novel. She was one of the prominent novelists of 19^th century. her novel in full of psychology and how men physical relation to women, and women are work and not equal to men in their ideas in her most of novel into found them. Here I review about her famous and notorious novel “The mill on the floss”. In this novel, is an autobiographical novel and is identified with her childhood. In this novel she presets her father, mother, aunt, brother servants with ‘almost painful fidelity’. It is a tragedy that moves the readers, and how her childhood life in found in this novel. Here protagonist characters are sister and brother as Maggie and Tom. They are the children of the innocent but haughty and obstinate Mr. Tulliver, the miller of Dorlcote mill on the floss. Tom and Maggie have opposing qualities of characters. Tom is possess, narrow minded where as Maggie representing George Eliot is a girl of intend sensibility having deep emotional feeling and artistic tastes.  She is love and care of her father and brother, and how Eliot portrayed herself in Maggie character. in  novel we see that in Tom and Maggie has good relation and how Tom  has own self as intelligent and Maggie love to her neighbor’s friend Philip .  Tom does not like Maggie’s love for Philip wakens the son of lawyer wakem, who is supposed to be the evil angel of the family and mainly responsible for the ruin of the Tulliver’s family. Under the command of her brother, Maggie stops to have all relations with Philip. After the death of her father, Maggie leaves the mill and goes to visit her cousin Lucy  and also we see that Maggie’s relations to her mother has bad and her mother has evil them to Maggie life and how her aunt has to anger and cruel to her. In novel, Lucy marriage to Stephen guest. He is attracted towards Maggie and the girl also responds to the call of Stephen. When Tom knows all about them and he is disturbed, upset, and angry. And there is an argument again and ill felling is created between the brother and sister. One day, a flood comes in the town and we see that Maggie forgets all enmity and goes out to rescue her brother form the flood.  Both are want way and how their situation has badly them and move out in a boat. We see that Tom and Maggie are reconciled at the end but unfortunately the boat goes down into the swirling water of the flood and they are drowned. In their death, they were reconciled. We see that Maggie gives her life in an effort to save her brother and in this attempt.  She shows unselfish devotion to her brother and that was her motive form her childhood. George Eliot has presented the climax the final incident in her novel by the use of the river as recurrent symbol thought out the novel. The readers also find the background of county side which exhibits George Eliot’s interest in nature and country surroundings. The characters of Maggie are charming. The novel is more psychological than ethical in character and the style is poetic and graphic at places. according to linen Stevenson ‘The mill on the floss’, than is not merely a fervent investigation of love from a human’s point of view, but is also a truthful unveiling of the author’s in this novel in her own feelings.

   

                    We see that in this novel many a time political, geographical and social life portrayed to George Eliot and how her childhood in Maggie character in see that. So we conclude that in brother and sister relation has to truth one and how the reader has to the end of the novel in climax and became tragedy of Maggie life and she is scarified to their life and also she is unhappy to her mother, and bother. And we see that Maggie character is represented to George Eliot herself and her childhood.  In novel Eliot gives ideas about psychological and realism in novel and how Maggie behaviors in novel at that time at George Eliot life.