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Question 1

Appeared in Year: 2016

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Treatment of Nature by George Eliot and Thomas Hardy in their novel

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Thomas Hardy and George Eliot

  • Thomas Hardy, the famous writer of Victorian period thought that man is always in conflict with the laws of nature. He believed in the dual power of nature - nature of beauty and grace, and nature of ugliness and cruelty.
  • The first major undertaking of Thomas Hardy was the firm establishment of his imaginative world of W…

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Question 2

Appeared in Year: 2016

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Critically comment on ‘point of view’ as a narrative technique in The Mill on the Floss. (Paper 1)

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The Mill on the Floss

  • The Mill on the Floss is a novel by George Eliot, and here the narrator is omniscient who takes the reader, as if in a journey, in to the life of characters and reveals their thoughts and emotions clearly to us. George Eliot has adopted such a technique in which the narrator uses a first person as well as a third person narrati…

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Question 3

Appeared in Year: 2021

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The conclusion of The Mill on the Floss reiterates the nature-nurture debate in a subtle way. Elaborate.

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The Mill on the Floss is an 1860 novel, written by George Eliot. The novel was first published in three volumes, set in St. Ogg՚s. George Eliot՚s real name was Mary Ann Evans. She was a leading novelist, poet and translator of the Victorian period. Her other noteworthy novels include: Adam Bede (1859) and Middlemarch (1871 - 72) , among others.

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Question 4

Appeared in Year: 2023

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The Mill on the Floss articulates the tension between circumstances and how the spiritual energies of individual characters struggling against those circumstances. Would you agree?

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The Mill on the Floss is a novel by the Victorian writer George Eliot, published in 1860. It is set in St. Ogg՚s. The novel was first published in three volumes and later as a full-fledged work. George Eliot՚s real name was Mary Ann Evans, a poet, novelist and translator. Her other famous works include Adam Bede (1859) and Middlemarch (1871 - 72) .

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