Date of Award
7-1968
Degree Type
Master's Essay - Restricted
Degree Name
Master of Arts (MA)
Department
English
First Advisor
Jerome Thale
Abstract
George Eliot was trying to write a new kind of tragedy in her novels, one unlike the Aristotelian concept of a great man deemed to fall by a tragic flaw in his character. As early as in Adam Bodo, she attempted to show through the use of simple rustic people how inherent feelings, intelligence, and aspirations elevate the common man to a capacity for heroism and thus tragedy.
Recommended Citation
Moon, Jean M., "George Eliot's Redefinition of Tragedy in Middlemarch" (1968). Master's Essays (1922 - ). 2452.
https://epublications.marquette.edu/essays/2452
Comments
An Essay Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirement for the Degree of Master of Arts, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.