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Pavlína Tejcová - 6th year Independent Readings PhDr. Vera Palenska, CSc. 20 June 2004 Oroonoko and Maggie - Conflict of the Self In this essay I will be interested in the conflict of the self of the protagonists of two novels - Oroonoko: or the Royal Slave and The Mill on the Floss. Even though the novels may seem at first glance incomparable, dealing with societies of different periods and cultures, both are works of almost startling sadness and of affecting stories of personal tragedies. Protagonists´ personalities, their inner selves, are in constant clashes with the societies that surrond them. They are in a way outsiders, whose attemts to conform can never be fulfilled, as they don´t fit into the value systems of their periods. The Mill on the Floss, as all Eliot´s novels, was written in Victorian England and the values of that society are reflected in the book. This was a...

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