Dec 29, 2009

Middlemarch | Sample Essay Outlines

Topic #1
Four pairs of lovers have achieved successful marriages through very different, difficult paths. How did they do this?

Outline
I. Thesis Statement: In George Eliot's Middlemarch, four couples have circuitously followed various paths to happy marriages.

II. Dorothea and Ladislaw

A. Ladislaw's repudiation of Casaubon's financial support
B. Rosamond's admission to Dorothea that Ladislaw loves only Dorothea
C. Ladislaw's return to Middlemarch to tell Dorothea he would not cause her to become penniless by marrying...