Dec 25, 2009

Middlemarch | Suggested Essay Topics

Prelude and Book One: Miss Brooke
Prelude and Chapters 1-6
1. Dorothea and Celia, although sisters, have exceedingly different views of life. Use the text to support this statement.

2. How may Dorothea's decision to marry Casaubon be seen as a political statement concerning the Reform Bill and religion?

Chapters 7-12
1. Both Mary and Rosamond are Featherstone's nieces. Compare their attitudes toward their rich, dying uncle with their attitudes toward the men they love-in Mary's case, Fred, and in Rosamond's, Lydgate.

2. Only...