Open AccessMatrimonial Failure in George Eliot’s Middlemarch: through the perspective of Social Exchange Theory
Author(s) -
Naveed Ur Rehman
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
univeristy of chitral journal of linguistics and literature
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2663-1512
pISSN - 2617-3611
DOI - 10.33195/jll.v2ii.162
Subject(s) - george (robot) , social solidarity , solidarity , perspective (graphical) , social exchange theory , fragility , sociology , psychology , history , social psychology , political science , law , art , social science , art history , chemistry , politics , visual arts
This paper aims at to analyze the causes of matrimonial failure in George Eliot’s Middlemarch among the central couples: Casaubon and Dorothea and Dr. Lydgate and Rosamond _ by applying Social Exchange Theory and its principles (rewards and costs, Comparison level, relational resources, trust and commitment and marital solidarity), through which their causes of failure of conjugal relationship are meticulously analyzed, and not fulfilling of these cause failure and fragility in central marriages in the novel.