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    This document provides a character analysis of Maggie Tulliver from George Eliot's novel The Mill on the Floss. It summarizes Maggie's appearance, imaginative mind, impulsiveness, romantic cravings, and tragic end. As a child, Maggie is clever but impulsive. She grows into a strikingly beautiful young woman with dark features and a longing for intellectual fulfillment. Her impulsiveness and sentimental nature often cause problems. She finds meaning in religious devotion but later friendship. She feels attraction to two men but circumstances lead to her tragic death alongside her brother in a flood, ending in an eternal embrace.

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    This document provides a character analysis of Maggie Tulliver from George Eliot's novel The Mill on the Floss. It summarizes Maggie's appearance, imaginative mind, impulsiveness, romantic cravings, and tragic end. As a child, Maggie is clever but impulsive. She grows into a strikingly beautiful young woman with dark features and a longing for intellectual fulfillment. Her impulsiveness and sentimental nature often cause problems. She finds meaning in religious devotion but later friendship. She feels attraction to two men but circumstances lead to her tragic death alongside her brother in a flood, ending in an eternal embrace.

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    This document provides a character analysis of Maggie Tulliver from George Eliot's novel The Mill on the Floss. It summarizes Maggie's appearance, imaginative mind, impulsiveness, romantic cravings, and tragic end. As a child, Maggie is clever but impulsive. She grows into a strikingly beautiful young woman with dark features and a longing for intellectual fulfillment. Her impulsiveness and sentimental nature often cause problems. She finds meaning in religious devotion but later friendship. She feels attraction to two men but circumstances lead to her tragic death alongside her brother in a flood, ending in an eternal embrace.

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    This document provides a character analysis of Maggie Tulliver from George Eliot's novel The Mill on the Floss. It summarizes Maggie's appearance, imaginative mind, impulsiveness, romantic cravings, and tragic end. As a child, Maggie is clever but impulsive. She grows into a strikingly beautiful young woman with dark features and a longing for intellectual fulfillment. Her impulsiveness and sentimental nature often cause problems. She finds meaning in religious devotion but later friendship. She feels attraction to two men but circumstances lead to her tragic death alongside her brother in a flood, ending in an eternal embrace.

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    Subject: Novel

    Topic: Character Analysis


    Submitted to: Ma’am Gulnaz
    Submitted by: Fida Ullah
    Class/Section: 4th-B, Evening

    Date: 2nd June 2021

    Introduction:
    The realm of English literature Eliot has contributed some immortal figures who have become stuck to
    the memory of the readers of her novels. Maggie Tulliver, among these unforgettable characters, stands
    supreme Maggie is the protagonist of The Mill on the Floss. The novel tracks Maggie as she grows from
    an impetuous, clever child into a striking unconventional young woman. Thus the panorama of Maggie‘s
    life is set before us as a child, as a little girl and as a grown up woman. We are made fully acquainted
    with the basic traits in Maggie’s character.
    Maggie’s Appearance:
    At the age of eighteen she seems older than her years and is described as newly sensuous – she is tall with
    full lips, a full torso and arms, and a crown of jet black hair. Thus, from an ugly duckling she turns into a
    swan. Maggie‘s worldliness and lack of social pretension make her seem even more charming to St.
    Ogg’s, as her worn clothing seem compliment her beauty. Maggie has been often unhappy in young
    adulthood. Having given up her early asceticism, longs for a richness of life that is unavailable to her.
    Actually the trait that was most marked in her all through life was “the absolute need of some one person
    who should be all in all to her, and to whom she should be all in all.”
    Maggie’s Imaginative Mind:
    Actually, Maggie has an imaginative mind, full of rosy ideas about life. However, when she finds the
    world inimical to her dreams, she becomes frustrated. But Tom being a practical man does not appreciate
    these ideas. It is this lack of intellectual communion which drifts her closer to Philip, the son of her
    father’s enemy and Tom’s class-fellow. Philip satisfies her intellectual thirst and this develops intimacy
    among them.
    Maggie’s Impulsiveness and Sentimental Nature:
    Yet Maggie‘s passionate preoccupations also cause pain for others. Maggie‘s mother and aunts
    continually express disapproval with Maggie‘s rash behavior, uncanny intelligence and unnaturally dark
    skin, hair and eyes. Yes it is only Tom’s opinion for which Maggie cares and his inability to show her
    unconditional love, along with his embarrassment at her impetuosity often plunges Maggie into the utter
    despair particular to immaturity. At one of these occasions when Tom pays more attention to Lucy, his
    cousin, Maggie becomes infuriated and pushes Lucy into mud. Frightful of the consequences of this rash
    act Maggie runs away to gypsies and is ultimately brought home in a very miserable condition. At another
    occasion when her mother and aunts criticize her for being untidy she goes into her attic and cuts her hair
    and spoils her doll. But soon she realizes her mistake, repents and weeps bitterly. All these incidents show
    her impulsive and sentimental nature right from her childhood.
    Maggie: Inspired by a Book:
    The most important event of Maggie‘s young life encounter with a book of Thomas a Kempis’s writings
    during the difficult year of her adolescence and her family bankruptcy. Looking for a “key” with which to
    understand her unhappy lot, Maggie seizes upon Kempis’s writings and begins leading a life of
    deprivation and penance. Yet even in this lifestyle, Maggie paradoxically practices her humility with
    natural passion and pride. It is only until she re-establishes a friendship with Philip Wakem. As Maggie
    continues to meet Philip Wakem Secretly, against her father’s wishes, her internal struggle seems to shift.
    Maggie’s Romantic Craving:
    When Maggie meets Stephen Guest, Lucy Deane’s handsome suitor, she feels this won’t for sensuousness
    fulfilled for the first time. Stephen plays into Maggie‘s romantic expectations of life and gratifies her
    pride. Maggie and Stephen’s attraction seems to exist more in physical gestures than in witty discussion,
    and it seems to intoxicate them both. Circumstances throw them together and Maggie, with Stephen
    remains away from St. Ogg’s for a few days.
    Maggie’s Tragic End:
    Again, it was her sense of duty and love for Tom that she went out during flood to save his life. However,
    both were drowned “in an embrace never to be parted”. Thus “in their death they were not divided.

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