乔治·艾略特(1819—1880),英国维多利亚时代的女作家,是一位在女权主义批评界中颇具争议性,“相当令人困惑”[1]的人物。评论界对于其是否属于女性主义作家存在较大分歧,而其分歧点主要有两个方面。第一,在艾略特创作的过程中,她似乎“企图绕过性别的束缚,把男女双方视为困在同一个由于双方的弱点使其继续存在的不平等制度的矛盾冲突中,把他们作为平等的人物呈现在读者面前,赞扬他 George Eliot (1819-1880), a British Victorian writer, is a controversial, ”rather confusing,“ feminist critic. [1] There are two major differences between the critics on whether or not they belong to feminist writers. First, during Eliot’s writing, she appeared to ”attempt to circumvent the shackles of sex and view both men and women as contradictory conflicts that are trapped in the same inequality that has continued to exist because of their weaknesses They appear before the reader as equal figures and praise him