Concetti Chiave
- George Eliot, the pen name of Mary Ann Evans, was an English novelist known for her vivid depiction of rural life and moral integrity.
- Despite her strict religious upbringing, Eliot became a rationalist, maintaining a strong sense of duty and ethical principles.
- Her relationship with the married George Lewes led to societal condemnation, influencing her decision to write under a pseudonym.
- Eliot's novels, including "The Mill on the Floss" and "Middlemarch," are characterized by their structured narrative and complex characters from varied social backgrounds.
- Her writing style uniquely combined colloquial and formal language, reflecting the philosophical and scientific debates of her time.
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Mary Ann Evans e la sua vita
George Eliot was the pen name of Mary Ann Evans who was born in 1819. She had a love for the countryside which is evident in her novels. She received a strict religious training, read a lot and learnt several languages. Later she abandoned religion and became rationalist but she never rejected the sense of duty and moral integrity.
Relazioni e pseudonimo
In London she met important men of culture like Lewes and they fell in love so they decided to live together but he was already married thus society condemned this relationship and she was isolated as a moral sinner. After the difficulties getting published she decided to use the pseudonym of George Eliot and she wrote many fiction like Scenes of Clerical Life, Adam Bede, The Mill on the Floss, Silas Marner and Middlemarch. She died in 1880.
Innovazioni letterarie di Eliot
Eliot was involved in the philosophical and scientific debates of the period. In her work there was a beginning, a middle and an end, a small group of characters taken from different social levels and all stories ended with a marriage or a death so the reader knew the story was complete. She was an innovator because her novels were based on characters and her language was based on two levels, colloquial and accepted.
Trama di The Mill on the Floss
The Mill on the Floss talks about Tom and Maggie are the children of Mr. Tulliver, the miller Darlcote Mill, outside the town of St. Oggs on the river Floss. Tom is a selfish boy with a tendency to control others and Maggie is intelligent and sensitive. When Tom comes back home Maggie welcomes him who has brought her a fishing-line and invites her to go fishing together the following day. Later he tells at his sister that he refused to share the biscuits with the other boys to save the money for the fishing-line and they fought him for this so Maggie is full of gratitude and admiration for him.
Domande da interrogazione
- ¿Cuál fue el motivo detrás del uso del seudónimo "George Eliot" por Mary Ann Evans?
- ¿Cómo se refleja el amor de George Eliot por el campo en sus novelas?
- ¿Qué innovaciones introdujo George Eliot en sus novelas?
Mary Ann Evans decidió usar el seudónimo "George Eliot" para superar las dificultades de publicación y evitar el prejuicio social debido a su relación con Lewes, ya que la sociedad la condenaba como pecadora moral.
El amor de George Eliot por el campo es evidente en sus novelas, donde a menudo describe escenarios rurales y personajes que viven en el campo, como se observa en "The Mill on the Floss".
George Eliot fue innovadora al basar sus novelas en personajes complejos y utilizar un lenguaje en dos niveles, coloquial y aceptado, además de estructurar sus historias con un inicio, un desarrollo y un final claro, generalmente concluyendo con un matrimonio o una muerte.
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