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Sara Rehman
Double Marginalization of Women: A Study of George Eliot’s The Mill on the Floss and
Mary Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
The role of British women was problematic to categorize, as they were neither colonizer nor
colonized
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Therefore, these
women became the target of the larger imperial discourse
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George Eliot in her novel, The Mill on the Floss, states about Maggie’s desirous attempts
to stick to a home that precisely rejects her
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Maggie’s character must therefore shape out her own place in order to avoid herself from
homelessness
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Subsequently, when Maggie is required to leave the Mill, the shadows of her first house (13)
prevent her from making and colonizing a subsequent home elsewhere
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When Maggie faces the critical storms
of her life, she fatally searches for comfort and then takes refuge in her ancestral home
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The text also singles about Maggie’s dusky skin and its effects on her life
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Meyer states about Maggie’s appearance that “apparent blackness proposes her social
marginalization due to her gender, age, and social class” (249), and, no doubt this
marginalization and exclusion tags her as the ‘Other’ even within the secured boundaries of

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home
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Maggie’s rebellious acts and behavior for not accepting the feminine codes of
conduct make her out of her family space
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Besides, excluded from her own beloved ones, she risks her life transferred from
her own domestic space to the imaginative domain
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Mary Wollstonecraft in her work A Vindication of the Rights of Woman replies to all the
theorists of the eighteenth century who believed that women are lesser than men and women
have no right to approach rational education
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Most theories of the enlightenment period
were based on race, gender, and sex
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Wollstonecraft
in her book is more worried about the rank of women, their rights to education
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She talks about the wrong
perceptions of men about women
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On one hand, these men know the
importance of knowledge but on the other hand, they failed to visualize this importance for
women which is dynamic for the progress of society
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She suggests women pursue
dynamic qualities rather than uphold submissive nature
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She acknowledges the heroism of virtuous women and explains that how women should
actively participate to overcome their difficult situations
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She thinks that the only way to progress for women is to have better access to education and
knowledge and men should also rethink the significance of manners
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People need to care about the beauty
of arts
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The assessment of one’s status and recognition should be based and judged on the
fundamental principles of human beings
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Firstly, to know oneself as duty bearing
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Thirdly, these kinds of
recognition of duties allow a healthy exercise and awareness of human rights on a socio-political
level
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They reveal how this female dependency was promoted by the
education system of the society
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The girls are unable to take
their decisions and due to this, they have to face imperialism at their own homes
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Both George
Eliot and Mary Wollstonecraft claim that only through education women can get equality in their
society
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Women should be considered as equal human beings, not
as marginalized subjects

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