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The “Morally Ideal Woman” in Middlemarch

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  • Çankaya University Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences

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  • 2012

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Abstract (2. Language): 
Viktorya Dönemi yazar› olarak Eliot, Middlemarch adl› roman›nda 19. yüzy›l ‹ngiliz toplumunu ve bu toplumun de¤erler sistemini, s›n›f yap›s›n› göz önünde tutarak, anlat›r. ‹ngiliz toplumunun üç ana sosyal s›n›f› olan aristokrasi, orta s›n›f ve iflçi s›n›f›, üç kad›n karakterin yard›m›yla detayl› olarak betimlenir. Eliot okuyucunun olaylarla ve karakterlerle ilgili sonuçlara ulaflmas›na, toplumla ilgili gerçekçi tasvirleriyle yard›m eder. Okuyucu, toplumsal s›n›flar›n de¤er yarg›lar›yla bir tan›fl›rken, ayn› zamanda Eliot’›n üstü kapal› etik ö¤retilerine de ulafl›r. Bu çerçevede, Dorothea, Rosamond ve Mary kendi s›n›flar›n›n (s›ras›yla aristokrasi, orta s›n›f ve iflçi s›n›f›) ahlaki de¤erlerinin ürünü olarak resmedilmifltir.
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Abstract (Original Language): 
As a Victorian novelist, George Eliot depicts the 19th century English society and its system of values with respect to class stratification in her novel Middlemarch. Three main social classes of English society- aristocracy, middle-class, and working class- are rendered in detail with the help of three women figures representing the classes. With realistic representations related to society, Eliot lets the reader reach conclusions about the events and characters. The readers are introduced to the moral values of the classes, and the implicit moral teachings of Eliot. In this frame, Dorothea, Rosamond, and Mary are portrayed as the products of their classes’ moral values, aristocracy, middle class and working class respectively.
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