Daniel Deronda by Eliot
Leonora Alcharisi’s Individualism in George Eliot’s Daniel Deronda Although Daniel’s mother is only in two chapters of George Eliot’s Daniel Deronda, she stands out as one of the novel’s most memorable, and shocking, characters. Leonora Alcharisi completely obliterates any preconceptions that Daniel, and the reader, had about what his mother might be like. The crux of why she is so shocking is that her character is bereft of any motherly qualities. Leonora’s renouncing of the role that society values most in women, that of mother, is emblematic of her rejection of every design that society projected on her. Leonora’s struggle with the society that doesn’t value her because she is a Jewess is embodied in her relationship with her father, Charisi. Her nature is one that needs freedom. This causes her to chafe under the constraints of her strict Jewish upbringing. Although she is only concerned with personal liberation and is thus not a true feminist, Leonora articulates many ideals that are very feminist in nature. By examining her successes and failures, the reader gains insight into the novel, and society as a whole. Eliot describes Leonora’s beauty as having “a strangeness in it as if she were not quite a human mo
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Approximate Pages = 10 (250 words per page double spaced)
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