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Item Questioning Conventionality of Marriage in George Eliot’s Middlemarch(Department of English, 2014) Sunar, ThakendraThis research examines the evolving social and personal attitudes about marriage and love as depicted in George Eliot’s Middlemarch by arguing that Eliot anticipates modern marriages by critiquing traditional Victorian marital values. For the purposes of this analysis, the applicable aspects of modern marriage are sexuality, shifting gender roles, and a dismissal of social class as the major factor in choosing a partner. Questioning conventionality of marriages involve more than just an emphasis on love, sexuality, shifting gender roles, and a dismissal of social class as the major factor. These play a vital role in modernizing the antiquated understanding of marriage and its social function. Questioning conventionality of marriage as presented in Middlemarch is innovative and modern. In order to achieve this end, a modernist approach to examine how Middlemarch is conditioned by its modern context has been applied. Hence this research makes an investigation into the issues of women of the Victorian age who underwent diverse level of oppression and male domintion in every respect of life. In the very reflection, the study concentrates on the marriage that is one of the most burning issues of women of the time.