Transformation of Rage. Peggy Fitzhugh Johnstone
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Название: Transformation of Rage

Автор: Peggy Fitzhugh Johnstone

Издательство: Ingram

Жанр: Языкознание

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isbn: 9780814743201

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СКАЧАТЬ out only in indirect or disguised ways" (171). Emery notes further that Eliot portrays as accidental some of Maggie’s aggressive actions toward Tom: letting his rabbits die when she has promised to take care of them while he is away at school (Mill 82), and upsetting his pagoda and knocking against his wine (147, 155) during a visit with their relatives (Emery 25-26).

      Maggie’s excessively close attachment to Tom reflects her underlying need to be accepted by her parents; yet at the same time, her recurring aggression toward him enacts her anger at her parents' rejection. Emery explains that because Maggie feels rejected by her mother, she "remains 'hungry' for love, and . . . her loving retains the quality of narcissistic need" (16). The intensity of her attachment to Tom, along with her repeated expressions of aggression toward him, reflect this hunger for love. Maggie’s later relationships with other men also combine the need for attachment with the need to express aggression, as she attempts to revive her childhood sense of closeness to Tom. Yet her involvements with Philip, Stephen, and Dr. Kenn only cause Tom’s rejection of her and cannot satisfy her voracious need for his love.

      Maggie’s expression of aggression follows the pattern of the Prodigal Son story, which is told in a series of pictures on the wall at Luke’s (the head miller's) cottage nearby, where she has gone for comfort after she learns that Tom’s rabbits are dead. Maggie’s behavior follows a cyclical pattern of impulsive and/or aggressive action and flight, followed by guilt and reparation. After she lets the rabbits die, she tries to persuade Tom to forgive her, but he rebuffs her, and she runs upstairs to the attic. When the family notices that Maggie is missing, Mr. Tulliver sends Tom to look for her. Maggie, seeking reparation, "rushe[s] to him and [clings] round his neck," and Tom finally kisses her and offers her a piece of cake (91). On another occasion, when Mrs. Tulliver’s visiting relatives make negative comments about Maggie’s skin and hair, she seeks revenge by running upstairs and cutting her hair (120). She soon feels sorry for what she has done, and when she returns to face her relatives' inevitable reactions, she seeks reparation by running to her father: she "hid her face on his shoulder and burst out into loud sobbing" (125). When Maggie pushes the family’s model female, Lucy, in the "cow-trodden mud" (164) as a way of getting back at Tom, Lucy, her mother, and her aunts, she runs off to the gypsies. One of the gypsies finally takes her home, and Mr. Tulliver once again rescues and comforts her (180). Thus Maggie’s aggression in all three incidents follows the pattern of aggressive action and flight, followed by guilt and finally, reparation with the father (figure).

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