Critique of Marriage in 19th Century English Literature Essay

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Her blooming full-pulsed youth stood there in a moral imprisonment which made itself one with the chill, colorless, narrowed landscape, with the shrunken furniture, the never-read books, and the ghostly stag in a pale fantastic world that seemed to be vanishing from the daylight. (Eliot, XXVIII)

However it is worth noting the implicit paradox expressed here in the notion of a married woman's "oppressive liberty." Dorothea Brooke marries sufficiently well that she is not condemned to a life of constantly c

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ooking and washing underwear for Casaubon -- instead, she finds herself without anything to do, and this "freedom" from labor is atually what is most oppressive here. In some sense, then, Eliot's analysis of the problems of marriage is subsidiary to a larger point about women's soial role and even eduational status (an issue that obsessed Vitorians in works ranging from the serious, in Tennyson's The Priness, to the silly, in Gilbert and Sullivan's travesty of Tennyson, Priness Ida).

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