LESSON- MAGGIE CUTS HER HAIR BY GEORGE ELLIOT
QUESTION: Maggie was considered the black sheep in the family. Do you think she was solely responsible for impulse behavior? explain why.
plz, answer the correct one from this extract: where the party begins to the end where she cries on her father's hand. EXPLAIN WHY AND WRITE IN YOUR OWN WORDS.
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So, in this story of Tom and Oliver, the other children, Darla and Rebecca believe that their father is an innocent victim who the black sheep has mistreated. They have been raised to be protectors of their father’s feelings. They have been sensitized to his feelings of being wronged. And they don’t have the psychological savvy to see through this. They are limited in their perceptions.
They are part of a formation that protects one member of the family at the expense of another. The rest of the family sees itself as functional (and they often are) as well as innocent of any contribution to the black sheep’s issues. This perception is a family myth and shows a skewed family belief system. The black sheep doesn’t get genuinely integrated into the family because the family does not understand family dynamics. They are blind and unconscious of what is occurring