The Lifted Veil | The Painful Challenge of George Eliot’s Epigraph
In the following essay, the author describes the important character of Latimer as a masochist attempting to change by going ‘‘into the sadism’’ that dominates him.
Give me no light, great Heaven, but such as turns To energy of human fellowship; No powers beyond the growing heritage That makes completer manhood.
Through her altruistic epigraph to a painful story, George Eliot suggests that the journey to greater human fellowship often requires a passage through suffering. In The Lifted Veil, Eliot explores the form of pain that shackles sado-masochistic relationships, and the roots of that pain—buried in the misperception that punishment is deserved. This paper will explore...
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