• George Eliot: The Use of Objects and Imagery in "The Mill on The Floss"

     

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Published: 11.04.2006.
Language: English
Level: Secondary school
Literature: n/a
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The Victorian age was a time period in which the world of matter and objects outweighed the importance of the natural world; a time when materialism, economy, industry and scientific advancement took priority over all natural entities, and connected men with material objects more than with the innate world which they were first derived. Along with the severe connection to the unnatural and material world came the repression of natural human instincts, bending and molding people unnaturally to fit the skewed standards of a patriarchal society. …

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