Keywords: 19C English Novel, Gentleman, Louis Althusser, Patriarchal System, Psychoanalysis. The novel is most probably set in the 1820s and includes autobiographical elements. In 1994, Helen Edmundon’s adaptation of this incredible novel premiered at Shared Experience in. The Mill on the Floss spans a period of 10 to 15 years and details the lives of Tom and Maggie Tulliver, siblings growing up at Dorlcote Mill on the River Floss. It is the story of Maggie Tulliver, an impulsive and free-spirited girl utterly devoted to her brother Tom and desperate for the approval of her family. It is the fate of all who should be in ideology to have his identity approved by the society. In 1860, George Eliot (real name Mary Ann Evans) published her novel The Mill on the Floss.

Such a circumstance, however, is not peculiar to Tom himself. Tulliver Fiery owner of Dorlcote Mill. Maggie Tullivers quick imagination is stifled by the claustrophobic constraints of family life in a provincial town. Tom Tulliver Maggies older brother, whom she loves in spite of his strictness with her. So Tom accepts the ideology of masculinity without any resistance and internalizes it as part of his identity. Maggie Tulliver The intelligent, emotionally sensitive daughter of a country mill-owner.Her life is the central story of the novel.

The Victorian masculinity which is constructed by the patriarchal society is forced on Tom who unwittingly and unconsciously imbibes its ideology from the school and home, the ideological state apparatus suggested by Louis Althusser. Focusing on Tom who is led to sacrifice his own desire, this study aims to reveal the violence of Victorian patriarchal ideology, exploring the ideology of Victorian gentleman as an ideal masculinity. The oppression of the patriarchal society, however, is not confined to its female protagonist, since Tom Tulliver, Maggie’s brother, is also the victim of the patriarchal society which is characterized by the rigid categorization of gender. Many critics have examined George Eliot’s The Mill on the Floss in terms of feminism, focusing on the patriarchal society’s oppression on Maggie, the protagonist of the book. Victorian Masculinity in George Eliot’s The Mill on the Floss Proceedings of The 2nd International Conference on Research in Humanities

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