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Deceive [di'si:v]v обманывать emotion [Гтэи/эп] п чувство




Ardent ['adant]а пылкий economical [Jika'rromiksl] а экономный

Adore [a'do:] v обожать dilemma [dai'lems] n дилемма

Emotional [i'imujbnl] a эмоциональный hypocrisy [hi'prjkresi] n лицемерие

Dignity ['digniti]n достоинство frankness ['frasrjkms] n искренность

Reveal [n'vi:l] v показывать wickedness ['wikidms] л злоба

Psychology [saf kntadji] n психология unmask [An'ma:sk] v разоблачать

Логический tenderness ['tendsnis] n нежность

Psychological Lsaiks'lrxfeikal] а психо- sympathy ['simpa9i] n симпатия

Pitilessly ['pitilisli]adv безжалостно rural ['гиэгэ1]а сельский

The Mill on the Floss

George Eliot's most widely read book is The Mill on the Floss. It is an original study of English provincial life and the story of a brother and a sister. The central character is Maggie Tulliver fmaegi 'tAlrva]. As a child she is intellectual, emotional and strong in character. Her brother Tom is a contrast to her sister, being noisy, dull and shallow, yet Maggie adores him. The life of the children is shown in their relations to their parents and a circle of aunts and uncles. The reader sees the middle-class family through Maggie's experience. It is a hardworking, economical, proud and narrowminded family. When Maggie grows up she dreams about a larger world of the mind and emotions. Her ardent nature is never satisfied with "a little of anything". "That is why better to do without earthly happiness altogether", she says to her friend Philip Wakem. Maggie is ever ready for self-sacrifice. She thinks she has found peace in subduing her own will. But the reader doubts in this. So does Philip. He loves Maggie and therefore he sees that Maggie is only trying to deceive herself.

Maggie is engaged to Philip but she falls in love with Stephen [ 'stirvn] Guest, who, in his turn, is engaged to her cousin Lucy Deane ['lusi 'di:n]. She has to make a moral choice between the two men. The author solves Maggie's dilemma by a quite tragic ending. George Eliot invents a flood of the Floss. Maggie tries to rescue her brother from it, but both drown in the river.


 


Vocabulary

fiction ffikfan] n художественная лите- inner Г/тэ] а внутренний

ратура inspiration [,msp3'reijbn] n вдохновение


Vocabulary


 





self-sacrifice['self'saeknfais] n само пожертвование shallow ['Jaelau] а ограниченный solve ['sbIv] v решать subdue [sab'dju:] v подавлять

engaged [m'geicfcd] a помолвленный flood [fl\d] n наводнение narrowminded ['nasreu'mamdid] а огра­ниченный rescue ['reskju:] v спасать

Questions and Tasks

1. Relate briefly the story of George Eliot's life.

2. Comment on George Eliot's best works.

3. What problems does she deal with in her novels?

4. Name her works of the later period.

5. What is the merit of the work The Mill on the Floss?

6. Retell the contents of The Mill of the Floss.





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