Anguished: She flaps her wings haplessly in the prison

Abstract

This paper is going to attempt a gender critique of George Eliot’s The Mill on the floss. The paper seeks to investigate how George Eliot’s myriad childhood experiences helped in shaping the character of Maggie, the protagonist of the novel The Mill on the Floss. George Eliot does not only focus on Maggie’s bildung but also on the bildung of Maggie’s brother Tom. The paper tries to depict a picture of the then society.