The Mill on the floss

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Title: The Mill Next to Floss

Author: George Elliott

Translator: Ibrahim Younesi

Publisher: –

Subject: English story

Age category: Adult

Cover: Paperback

Number of pages: 628 p

Language Farsi

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The Mill on the floss is a dramatic and tragic story set in early nineteenth-century England. The theme of the story of the mill next to the flow is the confrontation between personal interests, desires and aspirations with human duties, including family support, and the general plot of the story proceeds accordingly. Maggie, with her unusual appearance, curiosity, intellectual power and rebellious tendencies, is in no way compatible with the traditionalist society in which she lives. Maggie is a girl who is never admired for her cleverness and talent and is not understood by others and lives in a society where she is not given any opportunity to develop her talents.

The mill next to Floss
The concept of family and past traditions has been one of the main and primary nuclei in most fiction books, especially in classic novels. Parents ‘relationships with their children and siblings’ relationships with each other are among the topics that have been most influential in the narrative process of these books and have had happy or surprising results for the reader. But the question can be asked whether individuals can have an independent identity without their family and past. George Elliott tells the story of family relationships, childhood, love, and gossip in the long, beautiful novel The Mill Next to Floss.

Book mill Next to Floss

Maggie and Tom are siblings whose father, Mr. Taliver, owns a mill and farm near Floss. Maggie is an intelligent, kind and talented girl who always supports her brother. But unlike Maggie, the older brother is a quick-tempered, hard-working boy who gets angry easily. Tom is the mother’s favorite child because the mother believes Maggie is a troublemaker. Years later when Mr. Talivar goes bankrupt.

Maggie falls in love with a boy named Philip. Tom opposes Maggie and Philip’s marriage because Philip is the son of a man with whom their father has gone bankrupt due to a dispute, so Maggie is forced to give up her love. The climax of the story begins when Maggie goes to see her rich cousin and her fiancé. But this meeting creates problems for Maggie, which leads to her rejection and isolation in the family and society, and in the end, a bitter end is formed for her.

Examining the themes of the book The Mill on the floss
George Elliott is one of the leading English writers in the world of literature for his realistic and psychological views.

In most chapters of the book, the narrator is aware of all that is happening. The narrator gives the reader a detailed view of all the characters and shows their thoughts and feelings. However, the narrator sometimes changes to the first person using “I” and directly addresses the reader as “you”. This change of narrator from the omniscient and the voice of the first person takes the reading of the story out of a repetitive rhythm.
In this society, it seems that women, even with the ability to learn science, prefer slander and gossip to study and increase awareness. In such a place, Maggie can not cultivate her talents and only feels dissatisfied. In this way, Maggie performs all her duties as a woman in society in the opposite direction in order to achieve her desires.

Another theme of the story is the decisions of the characters. Choices that are neither white nor black are not entirely right or wrong, but they do have consequences. Maggie has always seen her family discriminate against her and her brother Tom. This may be the reason for Maggie’s desire to pursue a career in men, but no reasonable path is available to her, and she must sacrifice her duties to achieve these desires. In contrast, the tasks in society are not very enjoyable for a creative and shrewd person like Maggie, and it is very difficult for him to choose this. In this way it can be understood that he has to make a difficult choice between his human duties and his desires.
An interesting paradox of Elliott’s genius in this story is Maggie’s commitment to the past, family, and community that she is willing to leave. A person’s past and memories are a big part of the characters in this story. Some characters want to get rid of the past and live in the future, and some just want to live in the past.

For example, although marrying Stephen seems to be the best opportunity for Maggie to experience a happy and peaceful life, she decides to leave Stephen and believes that all opportunities for a happy life are limited to a return to the traditional life of the past. It becomes. Even Dr. Ken, who appreciates Maggie for sticking to his religious values, advises him to leave and forget about everything so that he does not suffer more, but Maggie makes another decision.
The author’s account of Maggie’s efforts is not just about the general discussion of a culture of indifference to past generations, but about greater progress and freedom for limited women like Maggie.

The Life and Works of George Elliott; Prominent author of the Victorian era
Marianne or Marianne Evans, nicknamed George Elliott (1880-1819), was a prominent Victorian English novelist, poet, journalist, and translator. Marianne chose the male nickname George Elliott because her personal life issues did not affect the success and prominence of her work.

Marian’s father was a carpenter and builder, and Marian’s father was the third child. He lost his mother at the age of 16 and married Marianne to take care of the house. But at a young age, Marianne began learning Italian, German, Greek, and Latin. He was very interested in reading books and music and played the piano beautifully, at a time when such work was not popular with girls.

In 1849, Marianne’s father died. Lonely and in need of income to make a living, he decided to use his writing experience to build a new life for himself.
Marian went to the publishing office of John Chapman, editor in London, where he worked as a journalist. Among the celebrities Marianne met in London were Charles Dickens, Harriet Martino, George Grout, and Herbert Spence. People who each more or less had an impact on his life.

Maria’s first work of fiction was the magnificent novel Adambid, published in 1859. This book attracted everyone’s attention and made him famous. A year after the success of Adam Willow, he wrote the feature novel Mill Next to Floss and dedicated it to his wife, George Henry Lewis. A novel in which one can see shadows of the author’s own life, especially his childhood.

Silas Marner’s novel is a compelling story of a weaver man, published by George Elliott in 1861.
Marianne, who became increasingly acquainted with London urban life and touched on the problems of society, published another novel, Middle March, in 1871-1872. A novel that tells the story of a city called Middle March. This book is a turning point in the history of novel writing. One of the reasons for the popularity of Middle March is the true story, which recklessly expresses the problems and concerns of the people of the city. The same theme can be seen in the works of writers such as Charles Dickens and Jane Austen, in addition to Elliott.

George Elliott is one of the authors of various literary works. He has written political novels such as The Legend of Jubal and historical novels such as Romula. Most of his stories take place in England and show a realistic style of their society.
George Elliott has died at the age of 61 after two years of battling kidney disease, leaving behind seven novels and 11 books of poetry.

Mill next to Floss translated by Ebrahim Younesi
Ebrahim Younesi is a veteran and experienced Iranian translator who has translated many of the great works of world-renowned authors into Persian. One of the books that was first introduced in Iran with the translation of Younesi into Persian-speaking was the book “Mill by the Floss”, which was published in 1989 by Negah Publications in 628 pages. This classic long novel was reprinted for the fourth time in 2011.

“Floss River Mill” is another title published by Markaz Publishing House with a translation by “Ahad Aliqlian”.
“Pejman Hosminejad” is another translator who translated this work into Persian under the title “Floss River Mill” and published its word.

In a part of the book, we read about the mill next to Floss
Mr. Talivar paused for a minute or two, then put both hands in his pants pockets, as if hoping to get guidance from the area.

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