Both Helen Huntingdon in The Tenant of Wildefell Hall and Sue Bridehead in Jude the Obscure are considered to be the characters with strong feminist touch.Through the analysis of their different attitudes towards sex,this paper designs to uncover their respective attitudes towards the conventions of the Victorian society and find their inner connections and differences in the development of Feminist movement.
As George Eliot's seventh novel,Middlemarchis considered as one of her most successful novels. Amongthe multiple plots,Dorothea is no doubt thecentral character in Middlemarch. Sheis struggling between her dream and reality. From her illusion to her disillusion,we will see how Dorothea failed to find her identity as an intellectual assistantand returned to womanhood in the end. She is in the painful process of awakening.
