The Mill on the Floss에서 본 심미적 미의 가능성에 대한 연구

Abstract

The Mill on the Floss에서 본 심미적 미의 가능성에 대한 연구 페이지 : 143-166(24pages) This article is to show how the idealistic goodness in a life is possible in George Eliot's The Mill on the Floss. To research the possibility, I have studied the moral vision and the sympathy in G. Eliot's morality. Eliot's moral vision is composed of an inflexibility which insists on absolute moral norms and also of a flexibility which questions the absoluteness of the norms and allows judgements to be determined at least in part by the situation and in part by the inner state of conscience. Eliot admits the existence of moral loses its value, the moral norm degrades into mechanical actions or hypocritical ritual. As the absoluteness of the moral norm fades away through passage of time and change of environment and psychological state of the man, a flexible position of the moral norm is required in reality. Tom and Maggie in this novel are almost personifications of moral inflexible and human sympathy. Their drowning shows the impossibility that the idealistic goodness cannot exist in life but only possible in short and in aesthetic world of a novel. The Mill on the Floss SHOWS