Realism in George Eliot

             Realism is an intent to portray ordinary contemporary life,with attention to individual and regional eccentricities.
             There are two kinds of realism i.e. Subjective realism and the Procedural realism.In subjective realism come themes, characters and settings.In procedural realism come analytic realism, pictorial realism and dramatic realism.
             George Eliot has described the theme,characters and settings in such a way that it seems to be real and we feel as if we ourselves are witnessing the scenes.In analytic realism, the inner working of mind of any character is described.A.E.Baker rightly points out that "she exposed the internal clockwork".She is very deft in her psychological approach.Sometimes she simply allows us to put an instrument into a character's brainto let us see not only what is going on there,but often also to let ussee what the character himself does not see.Shortly after the death of Thias Bede,his wife Lisbeth was in the Bede home alone with the body.After an almost ritual cleansing and purification of the chamber where Thias lay,she slumped into a chair in the kitchen and contemplated her grief:At another time Lisbeth's first thought would have been ,"Where is Adam?" but the sudden death of her huaband had restored him in these hours to that first place in her affections that he had held six-and-twenty years ago: "she has forgotton his faults as we forgot the sorrows of our departed childhood,and thought of nothing but the young husband's kindnedd and the old man's patience." This sentence is remarkable not only for its brilliant psychological insights, but also for the skill and seeming ease with which Eliot handles a sentence,and the little flash of knowledge it gives us about Eliot's own unloved childhood.
             In all her fiction,George Eliot was concerned with moral problems of character;ut she never abstracted her characters from thier environment in order to illustrate their moral dilemmas.She was familiar wit...

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