On The Ethic Ideology Of George Eliot From Novel Writing

George·Eliot, both her life and novels were closely connected with morality. She violated morality in life, but explored moral problems tenaciously in her works. So'morality'is a key to reading her fiction.This dissertation falls to three chapters. Chapter one describes her view on ethics through analyzing her novels. The second chapter explores the way to her ideal ethics world. The last chapter is an exploration to the root of her thoughts.Chapter I: It is a prospect of the ethics world, including view about"good"and"evil", view about love, marriage and family and view about political life.In Eliot's eyes,'good'was connected with'honesty', bearing patiently, being restraint and tolerant, like Dana in Adam·Bede.'Good'was also connected with'love',which is the center of this problem.Her view on marriage was greatly influenced by Victorian convention. She believed that one must be careful in choosing a lover, considering his (her) status and importance. The lovers should be sincere and honest to each other, or it may leads to terrible disaster. She thought that love played an important role in marriage. Husbands and wives must respect each other, share happiness and pains.In Eliot's world, there was a form belief: whatever you did, it will be repayed in your life even afterlife. One who observes it will have a good end, otherwise, he (she) will chew the bitterness of life.Even in political lives, there were also some basic principles that one should observe. A politician without ethics was dangerous to our society.Chapter II: The road to an ideal moral world. Eliot not only described a moral picture but also exploded the method to this ideal world. The first way was self-cultivation. Like Wordsworth and Coleridge, George·Eliot also payed great attention to self-cultivation, which was thought to be an ideal way to a moral world. She entered her heroine's heart, and found that only though self-examination can one live morally and happily.Another way is love. Love was the nature of the human-being. The honest love of the simple people deserved most admiration. Chapter III: The root of her thoughts. It is essential to look for the source of her thoughts. She was a novelist and thinker, we can believe that what she expressed in the novel is precisely the opinion in her mind.Through her life, she read a lot of books, contacted many famous people and thought a lot, all of which had a great influence on her. The 19th century was a changeable period, so did philosophy. Eliot was familiar to these changes and was influenced by them. Both positivism and utilitarianism impressed her a lot.Industrialization also began in the 19th century, industry civilization changed people's perspectives. Their obsession with money made them degenerate. The author was so anxious about this that she tried her best to rebuild a moral world.In a word, George·Eliot herself was contradictory, but she was creative to some degree. If we read her novels from this perspective, we will benefit a lot from her, instead of criticizing her preaching only.