Gender roles are shaped by a stereotypical society and both sexes have to act and behave in such a way that is appropriate. The characters mentioned are those who have stepped out of the stereotypical circle and became the modern representation of gender in today’s society. The thing that I take from Middlemarch is a women do not have to conform to society. They are allowed to be their unique individual selves and defy the role that society gives them. In the end, Middlemarch wouldn’t have been the same without Dorthea and Casaubon, Lydgate and Rosamond, Fred Vincy, and Mrs. Cadwallader. We need these characters to help us realize that society does not define gender roles; we define society. Although, gender roles still exist Middlemarch teaches us that it is possible to be the one who changes or redefines what it means to be a man or a woman in
Gender roles are shaped by a stereotypical society and both sexes have to act and behave in such a way that is appropriate. The characters mentioned are those who have stepped out of the stereotypical circle and became the modern representation of gender in today’s society. The thing that I take from Middlemarch is a women do not have to conform to society. They are allowed to be their unique individual selves and defy the role that society gives them. In the end, Middlemarch wouldn’t have been the same without Dorthea and Casaubon, Lydgate and Rosamond, Fred Vincy, and Mrs. Cadwallader. We need these characters to help us realize that society does not define gender roles; we define society. Although, gender roles still exist Middlemarch teaches us that it is possible to be the one who changes or redefines what it means to be a man or a woman in