Desire in The Mill on the Floss and Jane Eyre

In this paper I would like to explore the issue of desire and how it moves the plot of two works from nineteenth century Victorian Literature by George Elliot and Charlotte Bronte called The Mill on the Floss and Jane Eyre. The ideal of desire offers conflicts in both novels. In The Mill on the Floss, Mr. Tulliver's desire to maintain equality and dignity in a world of black and white economic castes presents the Tulliver family with trial after trial. Comparatively, Jane in Jane Eyre also struggles with her desires for equality and dignity, which in turn affect the lives of many other…