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MiddlemarchEliot, who herself engaged in what was in Victorian England a highly unorthodox unmarried relationship with George Lewes, critiques the damage conventional marriage can wreak. When the sensitive,...
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MiddlemarchWhat narrative strategies or techniques does Eliot use in Middlemarch that show literary realism?...Middlemarch by George Eliot is often considered an example of literary realism, a nineteenth century literary and artistic movement that strove to portray ordinary daily life as it actually...
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MiddlemarchHenry James wrote his essay titled "The Art of Fiction," published in 1888, in response to Walter Besant's own essay of the same title, published in 1885. Both essays were revolutionary in that...
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MiddlemarchDorothea's two suitors are the Reverend Edward Casaubon and then later, Will Ladislaw. These two men could hardly be more different. Casaubon is considerably older than Dorothea and extremely...
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MiddlemarchGeorge Eliot, whose real name was Mary Anne Evans was born in 1819 into a rapidly industrializing, and therefore rapidly changing England and Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life is similar to...
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MiddlemarchIn Middlemarch by George Eliot, class and gender determine the circumstances within which the protagonist Dorothea must act. The narrator describes Dorothea in the following terms:For a long while...
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MiddlemarchDorothea and Lydgate have some character traits in common, in that both of them genuinely wish to help others. Lydgate is handsome, of high social status, but still idealistic enought to want to...
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MiddlemarchThe character of Dorothea Brooks in George Elliot's Middlemarch, certainly embodies the conventional Victorian heroine. As a product of her generation, she is limited by society to exercise the...
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MiddlemarchBecause of societal expectations for and expectations on women, Mary Anne Evans wrote under the pen name George Eliot. "Middlemarch" has all the elements of epic historical fiction: many...
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MiddlemarchThe first possible answer is that there is no reason she should not have written a detailed study of provincial life. Provincial life was the subject of many of the great novels of the Victorian...
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MiddlemarchI think this question can best be answered by refering to how the different relationships that are played out for us in this novel support and relate to one of the key themes of the text, which is...
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MiddlemarchIt is very interesting to trace the development of Dorothea as a character, especially in relation to her ideas of marriage and romance as illustrated in her relationship to Casaubon. Note the way...
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MiddlemarchThe Prelude of Middlemarch very obviously ties Dorthea, as the central character and analogous of Saint Theresa, to community idealism as does Elliot's very direct description of Dorthea, lacking...
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MiddlemarchMiddlemarch’s subtitle is “A Study of Provincial Life” and the novel explored the characteristics of ordinary people and their choices in life, and through their voices and opinions we are...
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MiddlemarchIn the novel 'Middlemarch' by george Eliot, the author examines the themes and ideas of status, society, social climbing and the risks of all these motives in provincial life. many risks with home...
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MiddlemarchIn Middlemarch, the novel by George Eliot, Rosamund would love to increase her social standing and financial situation to a status where she could feel on a par with her betters. She sees...
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MiddlemarchThere are a lot of good themes in this novel. The main theme of the novel is charity. The kind of charity whereby the person is not recognized. Saint Theresa is spoken of at the beginning is one...
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MiddlemarchFirst, let's start with a working definition of determinism. Determinism is "the doctrine that all events, including human choices and decisions, have sufficient causes. " For example, the...