Russell, ShannonGrego, AlessandraDeNoble, Adriana2024-09-262024-09-262020DeNoble, Adriana. "Social Performativity in the Victorian Novel: An Insight into Ambition and Morality". BA Thesis, John Cabot University, Rome, Italy. 2020.https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14490/357Thesis (B.A. in English Literature, Minor in Creative Writing)--John Cabot University, Spring 2020.Due to their social performances, the characters in Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations andGeorge Eliot’s Daniel Deronda mimic the problematic divide between Victorian ideals ofambition and morality. Each protagonist must perform a curated self to navigate the instability ofVictorian England’s conflicting social expectations. Furthermore, through conducting a characteranalysis of Pip in Dickens’s novel and Gwendolen in Eliot’s novel, one can conclude that theauthors are suspicious of Victorian ambition, and one’s ability to maintain morality and ambitionwithout sacrificing one to the other.ii, 52 pagesenAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internationalhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/English literatureLiterature and societyThesis