Full of irony and suspense and even richer in character it shows how individual lives are shaped by and shape the community. Middlemarch explores nearly all matters of concern to modern life, portraying an entire community and every class within it. Peopling its landscape are Dorothea Brooke, a young idealist whose search for intellectual fulfillment leads her into a disastrous marriage to the pedantic scholar Casaubon the charming but tactless Dr Lydgate, whose marriage to the spendthrift beauty Rosamund and pioneering medical methods threaten to undermine his career and the religious hypocrite Bulstrode, hiding scandalous crimes from his past.Īs their stories interweave, George Eliot creates a richly nuanced and moving drama, hailed by Virginia Woolf as 'one of the few English novels written for adult people'. However, his education has not included tact and politicking, skills necessary in a small town but are seen by Lydgate as below him, the brilliant doctor.George Eliot's most ambitious novel is a masterly evocation of diverse lives and changing fortunes in a provincial community. He regards the residents of Middlemarch with a certain amount of contempt stemming from his belief that the townspeople are backwards and uninteresting. In contrast, Lydgate at times arrogantly flaunts his knowledge, making enemies with his fellow physicians. Casaubon is afraid to publish because he believes that he must write a work that is utterly above criticism. In both cases, however, the young wives' expectations of their husbands intellects are not reflected in reality.ĭespite extreme erudition, Mr. A similar dynamic is present in Dorothea and Casaubon's relationship, with Dorothea revering her new husband's intellect and eloquence. Rosamond initially admires Lydgate for his exotic education, and his intellect.
Rosamond Vincy's finishing school education is a foil to Dorothea Brooke's religiously-motivated quest for knowledge.
The book examines the role of education in the lives of the characters and how such education and study has affected the characters. Download cover art Download CD case insert Middlemarch
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