引言乔治·爱略特被称为维多利亚时期的圣人(the Victoriansage)之一,她的作品超越了女作家对婚恋题材的偏爱,在广阔的社会背景下探索人的命运。她作品的主人公大多都是跋涉在道德理想之路上的朝圣者,比如《弗洛斯河上的磨坊》中的麦琪、《织工马南》中的马南等。D.H.劳伦斯称她的作品开创了心理分析描写的先河,弗吉尼亚·伍尔芙和亨利·詹姆斯都对她有 INTRODUCTION George Eliot is known as one of the Victorians of the Victorian era. Her work transcends the prejudice of female writers on the theme of love and marriage and explores the destiny of people in a broad social context. Most of her protagonists are pilgrims on the path of moral ideal, such as Maggie in the Mill on the Fros River and Manan in Weaver Ma Nan. D.H. Lawrence said her work pioneered the psychoanalytic description of Virginia Woolf and Henry James have to her