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Middlemarch
by
George Eliot
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Summary
Chapter Summaries
Prelude and Book One: Miss Brooke
Chapters 7-12 Summary and Analysis
Book Two: Old and Young Summary and Analysis
Chapters 19-22 Summary and Analysis
Book Three: Waiting for Death Summary and Analysis
Chapters 29-33 Summary and Analysis
Book Four: Three Love Problems Summary and Analysis
Chapters 38-42 Summary and Analysis
Book Five: The Dead Hand Summary and Analysis
Chapters 48-53 Summary and Analysis
Book Six: The Widow and His Wife Summary and Analysis
Chapters 59-62 Summary and Analysis
Book Seven: Two Temptations Summary and Analysis
Chapters 68-71 Summary and Analysis
Book Eight: Sunset and Sunrise Summary and Analysis
Chapters 81-86 and Finale Summary and Analysis
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Prelude and Book One: Miss Brooke Questions and Answers
Chapters 7-12 Questions and Answers
Book Two: Old and Young Questions and Answers
Chapters 19-22 Questions and Answers
Book Three: Waiting for Death Questions and Answers
Chapters 29-33 Questions and Answers
Book Four: Three Love Problems Questions and Answers
Chapters 38-42 Questions and Answers
Book Five: The Dead Hand Questions and Answers
Chapters 48-53 Questions and Answers
Book Six: The Widow and His Wife Questions and Answers
Chapters 59-62 Questions and Answers
Book Seven: Two Temptations Questions and Answers
Chapters 68-71 Questions and Answers
Book Eight: Sunset and Sunrise Questions and Answers
Chapters 81-86 and Finale Questions and Answers
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Middlemarch Questions and Answers
Discuss George Eliot's Middlemarch as a Victorian novel.
How did George Eliot use social history as the background of Middlemarch?
Describe some parallels between the stories of Dorothea and Lydgate in George Eliot's Middlemarch.
What role does social class or birth play in Middlemarch by George Eliot?
Describe the character of Dorothea as a conventional victorian heroine in George Elliot's Middlemarch.
What are the major themes and concerns that run through Middlemarch?
In Middlemarch, discuss the relationship of Casaubon and Dorothea in terms of feminism.
How does Dorothea justify wearing the emeralds?
What are the names of Dorothea's two suitors?
In what sense, if any, may Middlemarch be called the tragedy of provincial life?
Examine the portrayal of authority figures in Middlemarch.
How does the structure of Middlemarch show contrast and assessment by weaving separate strands into an evergrowing tissue of relations and connections?
Middlemarch is a highly unusual novel. Although it is primarily a Victorian novel, it has many characteristics typical to modern novels. How does Eliot's dislike for the tropes of conventional romance influence her treatment of marriage in the novel?
What are the major themes and concerns that run through Middlemarch?
Describe how Middlemarch is not just Dorothea's story, but also a web of interpersonal and societal relations.
While in Rome, Casaubon is asked to sit for a portrait of which renowned philosopher?
Discuss determinism in 'Middlemarch'.
How does one moment in Book One set up a conflict to be faced in a moment in Book Two? Which quotations connect?
Why might George Eliot have written such a detailed novel about provincial llife?
What are Dorothea’s aspirations, hopes, and dreams, and how does she express sorrow or anger after losing something she valued or didn’t know she had? How do Causabon, Ladislaw, and Will, in chapters 20–22, provide Dorothea with further challenges or comfort?
To what extent is Dorthea’s background and education tied up with her community idealism in Middlemarch?
What narrative strategies or techniques does Eliot use in Middlemarch that show literary realism? Can you use text from Middlemarch to show examples?
What are the double standards in Middlemarch?
What 2 moments or quotes connect in book 5 of Middlemarch, and how do they connect?
What are Dorothea’s hopes and expectations, and how are they shattered in chapter 20 with Casaubon, chapter 21 with Will Ladislaw, and chapter 22 with Will, Casaubon, and Naumann? What has she lost or gained, and how does she respond to the sorrow and anger at her loss?
What is the significance of Henry James' and Walter Besant's arguments in their essays "The Art of Fiction," and how does their debate influence the understanding of and relate to George Eliot's narrative techniques in Middlemarch?
What are some common elements between The Portrait of a Lady and Middlemarch?
What are two quotations that connect in book 5 of Middlemarch, and how do they connect?