Theme of middlemarch, george eliot, self discovery,social position, love, marriage, money, concept of four p,politics, pride, prejudice, progress,

1. Name: Keraliya Kajal
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Paper-6 : Victorian Literature
M.A: Sem-2
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Year: 2017-19
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S.B. Gardi Department of English
Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji
Bhavnagar University
Theme of Middlemarch

2. George Eliot
• Born: Mary Anne Evans 22
November 1819
• Died: 22 December 1880 (
aged 61)
• Pen Name: George Eliot
• Occupation : Novelist

3. Middlemarch
• A Study of Provincial life.
• Publication Date: 1874
• Middlemarch is work of Realism
• it is a name a the Town
• Yoke of the marriage
• The novel is divided in 3 parts

4. Themes in the Novel
1) Self Discovery
2) Love
3) Money
4) Social Position
5) Marriage

5. Self Discovery
• There are certain truth which every character
learns about him self in the course of trials ,
Lydgate and Rosamond find out more about their
characters through their money troubles, though
they do not always adjust accordingly.
• Dorothea makes the most dramatic journey of self-
discovery, and changes a great deal within the
course of the novel.

6. Social Position
• Social position means a great deal which can be
found in Middlemarch ; it means how much respect
a person gets, how people treat them , how they
are regarded etc. People of high status are
generally treated more delicately than people with
little money , like Lydgate and Will Ladislaw. Birth
and connections are also important in determining
a person's place, and also what benefits they Will
receive from society.

7. Love
• Love keeps people together, the lack or it lets them
drift apart. Those who are truly In love like Will and
Dorothea, Mary and Fredare bound together by it,
and are very alike in temperament and outlook.
Those who lack it like Lydgate and Rosamond.
Casaubon and Dorothea are ill-suited to each other
in marriage, and are very disappointed by their
unions.

8.  Love keeps people together in Middlemarch we can
see in the Middlemarch true love between characters
like.
Ladislaw
Fred Vincy
Dorothea
Mary Garth

9. Marriage
• "Three Love Problems" - but one can understand
the novel's structure in light of three marriages.
Therefore it encounters many marriages in this
novel which makes the book a Romantic
atmosphere.

10. Dorothea & Mr.casaubone
Rosamond & lydgate
Mary and Fred

11. Money
• Money is the root of many evils, in the novel. Lydgate
gets desperate for want of it, Fred despairs when he
has little. Dorothea becomes generous when she has
too much , and the Garths save carefully since their
money is limited.
• Money has a profound effect on character within the
novel , and though many people are judged by how
much money they have, many of the best people in the
novel, like will Ladislaw and Mr. Fare brother , have very
little.

12. Concept of 4-P
1) Politics
2) Pride
3) Progress
4) Prejudice

13. Politics
• Everything is political in Middlemarch, with most
people strongly backing the conservative party.
Personal alliances and aversions are based on
matters of politics and political identification. But
even political matters, like all things, get personal;
people decide who or who not to support by how
they like them, even more so sometimes than any
dependence on issues.

14. Pride
• This is something which both helps and hinders many
people in the book and is most applicable to Dorothea,
Will Ladislaw , and Lydgate .With Lydgate , pride is a
tumbling block, something that keeps him from putting
his affairs in order, and sometimes doing what is
necessary in his marriage and practice.
• Dorothea and Will's pride is more involved in who they
are personally neither of them likes to be regarded
poorly , will defend themselves and their own course
with regarded to everything.

15. Progress
• Much is changing in the world of Middlemarch English
society is evolving in social , economic, technologic
areas. Socially , ideas of gender and class are in flux , as
women are proving more and more competent , and
the industrial revolution is causing a greater amount of
social mobility.
• The economy of England is changing, from an
aristocratic, inheritance- based system of holding
wealth and land, to one based on commerce , business
and manufacturing.

16. Prejudice
• A theme that Lydgate and Will Ladislaw can not
seem to beat . people in Middlemarch dislike
anyone who is not from Middlemarch, or anyone
whose reputation seems questionable Will and
Lydgate are both good people , but it is initial
prejudice, sometimes based on invalid or
circumstantial reason , that means that they are
never liked or accepted in Middlemarch.