The representation of the position of women and their values in Elizabeth Gaskell’s North and South and the BBC series North & South
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2014-08-15
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This thesis will discuss the novel North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell published in 1855 and
the BBC series from 2004 of that novel called North & South. The novel and the series will
both be analysed while looking at the representation of the position of women and their
values. It will become clear that they both represent a number of Victorian women, but the
main character Margaret cannot be called Victorian in everything that she does. She is
presented as a stronger and more independent woman in both the novel and the series, but the
series emphasises this even more than the novel does. This difference represents the way in
which the nineteenth century and the twenty-first century look different at the women and
their position. It shows a change that has happened in the century in between, because the
position of women in the twenty-first century is much higher than before. By comparing the
novel and the series, that has definitely become clear.
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