أفكار وآفاق
Volume 13, Numéro 1, Pages 109-134
2025-05-31
Maggie Tulliver’s No-self Manifesto: An Outcry Against Patriarchal Oppression And Familial Surveillance – A Study Of George Eliot’s The Mill On The Floss
Authors : Nouioua Wahiba . Kaced Assia .
Abstract
The legacy of martyrdom along with its no self manifesto are both central in George Eliot’s The Mill on The Floss. The article devotes a significant attention to the plight of Maggie Tulliver, a Christ co –sufferer, who is similarly doomed to bear patiently the injuries of crucifixion. She is, in this regard, exhorted to anthropomorphize the pietistic image of Jesus Christ, by emulating his sacrificing spirit and incarnating his penitential death. The model of the Crucified Healer to which our heroine reconciles herself will stir a critical reading of the patriarchal bias and the social surveillance that seal up the status quo. More accurately, the article will bear serious examination of the brother- sister hierarchy, orchestrated by a paternalistic environment, which defines the woman only with reference to man. The psychological torture exerted by the politics of otherness against our heroine scares her autonomy and instigates an emotional insecurity that finds expression in a pathological dependency on the brother. The need to be loved by a demi god called the brother finds completion in a passionless and selfless existence, destitute of any individual accomplishment. The life beyond the self syndrome, approbated via debilitating Christological accretions, will be brought under feminist scrutiny in order to explore Maggie’s sacrificial death. The subjection of Maggie’s penitential death to feminist diagnosis will unveil the psychological layers of her decision to save her brother from the flood. Maggie then dies muffled in silence: the body is entombed separated from its rebellious soul, which failed to love itself as much as it strove for love from the outside .The discussion will demonstrate that the need to be loved, which has seeped Maggie into the deadening floss, is in fact the need to be recognized as a woman in a male world.
Keywords
Brother ; Christ ; Death ; Feminist; Maggie Tulliver ; Sacrifice; Suffering
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