![]() ![]() One of my favorite scenes that demonstrates Maggie’s unbridled spirit and her refusal to conform to expectations is when she listens to the music from her Uncle Pullet’s snuff-box. ![]() The descriptions of her mop of wild, thick hair and her darker skin also make her stand out amongst other girls her age. ![]() Maggie has a passion for life that makes her charge forward into deeds and actions that other “nice” little girls would never dare. Τι μέγεθος is a phrase from Aristotle’s Poetics* which he uses to describe an action of “some kind of magnitude” that is an essential part of any tragedy. In the early chapters of The Mill on the Floss, George Eliot describes Maggie, her young, feisty and vivacious heroine: “There were passions at war in Maggie at that moment to have made a tragedy, if tragedies were made by passions only but the essential τι μέγεθος (some kind of magnitude) which was present in the passion was wanted to the action.” ![]()
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