The Role of Pretending; Contrast of Feelings and Logic in Victorian Women Based on Middlemarch

Women of Victorian Era were usually known as weak and illogical who cannot decide well in different situations. They were not considered as equal as men because their physical features only introduce them as lower than men and only suitable for taking care of children and doing household chores. The aim of this article is to show why Victorian women pretend that they were happy with their lives despite the fact that there were not; why they had so much struggle between their feelings and what they really thought. In order to seek this goal, the author tries to analyze the history of that time and focus on the social, political, and institutional situations of that time; how women were treated, and what right they could have. From the analysis it can be derived that under the hard suppression mood women could not show their real selves, and they had to proof themselves. They had to ignore love and ignore love, and these struggles brought contrast between what they really desired and what they had to accept.