this presentation is part of my academic studies in M.A in English at Department of English, M. K. Bhavnagar University.

2. • Middlemarch, A Study of Provincial
Life
• A novel by English author George
Eliot
• The novel is set in the fictitious
Midlands town of Middlemarch.
• it comprises several distinct stories
and a large cast of characters.
• It is regarded as her best work and
one of the greatest novels written
in English

3. Brooke
Vinci
Garth
Cadwallader
Featherstone

4. Brooke
 Arthur Brooke
 Dorothea
Brooke
 Celia Brooke
Vinci
 Walter Vinci
 Lucy Vinci
 Fred Vinci
 Rosamond Vinci
Cadwallader
 Humphrey Cadwallader
 Eleanor Cadwallader
Featherstone
 Peter Featherstone
 Rigg Featherstone
Garth
 Caleb Garth
 Susan Garth
 Mary Garth
Edward Casaubon
 Julia Casaubon
Will Ladislaw
Nicholas Bulstrode
Harriet Bulsrode
 Sir James Chettam
 Tertius Lydgate
 Camden Farebrother
 Jane Waule
 Mr. Hawley
 Mr. Mawmsey.
 Dr. Sprague
 Mr.. Tyke John Raffles

7.  Eldest of two daughters. They are
raised by her bachelor uncle, Mr.
Brooke.
 She is an intelligent, wealthy woman
with great aspirations. She is religious.
 She is well educated but naïve about
the outside world.
 She marries the elderly man Edward
Casaubon, with the idealistic idea of
helping him with his research project.
 Casaubon does not take her seriously
and resents her youth, enthusiasm, and
energy.
 She is forced to learn that she can’t
make a life through other people, and
that she must fulfill her purpose in life
through her own effort.
 Because of Casaubon's coldness during
their honeymoon, Dorothea becomes
friends with his relative, Will Ladislaw.
 Some years after Casaubon's death she
falls in love with Will and marries him.
Dorothea Brooke

8. Arthur Brooke —
 Bachelor uncle and
guardian of Dorothea and
Celia Brooke.
 He is a strong-willed man.
 But outdated person who
thinks what women should
do or not.
 He has a reputation as the
worst landlord in the
county, but stands for
parliament on a Reform
platform.
Celia Brooke —
• Dorothea's younger sister is
a great beauty.
• She is more sensual and
more calm than Dorothea
and does not share her
sister's idealism and
asceticism. She is sensible.
• She is too happy to marry
Sir James Chettam, a much
better match, when
Dorothea rejects him.

9. • He is middle aged husband
of Dorothea.
• A selfish, elderly clergyman
who is obsessed with his
scholarly research.
• Because of this his marriage
to Dorothea is loveless.
• His book The Key to All
Mythologies integrates his
life’s learning but it is
unfinished. But his research
is out of date because he
does not read German
Edward Casaubon

10. • A neighboring landowner, Sir
James is in love with Dorothea
and helps her with her plans to
improve conditions for the
tenants and rural folk.
• He is kind and sensitive man.
• When she marries Casaubon, he
marries Celia Brooke. Unlike
many men in this novel, he
doesn’t subscribe to ideas that
women should be weak, and
limited in their activities to
household affairs.
• this makes his union with Celia
a happy one, and cements his
friendship with Dorothea.
Sir James Chettam

11.  A young cousin of Mr.
Casaubon
 he has no property
because his grandmother
married a poor Polish
musician and was
disinherited.
 He is a man of great
verve, idealism and talent
but of no fixed
profession.
 He is in love with
Dorothea, but cannot
marry her without her
losing Mr. Casaubon's
property.
Will Ladislaw

12. Tertius Lydgate —
 An idealistic, talented,
but naïve young doctor,
and though of good
birth he is relatively
poor.
 Lydgate hopes to make
great advancements in
medicine through his
research.
 However, he ends up in
an unhappy marriage to
Rosamond Vincy.
 He ends up sacrificing
all of his high ideals in
order to please his wife.
Rosamond Vincy —
• She is beautiful and
shallow.
• Rosamond has a high
opinion of her own
charms and a low opinion
of Middlemarch society.
• She marries Tertius
Lydgate because she
believes that he will raise
her social standing and
keep her comfortable.
• She is unable to bear the
idea of losing status in
Middlemarch society.

13. Mary Garth —
o The practical, plain, and
kind daughter of Caleb
and Susan Garth, she
works as Mr.
Featherstone's nurse.
o She and Fred Vincy were
childhood sweethearts,
but she refuses to allow
him to woo her until he
shows himself willing and
able to live seriously,
practically, and sincerely.
Fred Vinci —
o Rosamond's brother, who
has loved Mary Garth from
childhood.
o His family hopes that he
will advance his class
standing by becoming a
clergyman, but he knows
that Mary will not marry
him if he does.
o Because of his love for
Mary, by studying under
Mary's father, a profession
through which he gains
Mary's respect.

14. Humphrey Cadwallader
and Eleanor
Cadwallader
 Neighbours of the
Brookes. Mr.
Cadwallader is a Rector.
o Mrs. Cadwallader is
talkative woman who
comments on local
affairs.
o She disapproves of
Dorothea's marriage
and Mr. Brooke's
parliamentary
endeavours.
Walter Vinci and Lucy
Vinci
o A respectable
manufacturing family.
o They wish their children
to advance socially, and
are disappointed by both
Rosamond's and Fred's
marriages.
o Mr. Vinci's sister is
married to Nicholas
Bulstrode.

15.  Caleb Garth — Mary Garth's father. He is a kind,
honest, and generous businessman who is a
surveyor and land agent involved in farm
management.
 Camden Farebrother — A poor but clever vicar and
amateur naturalist. He is a friend of Lydgate and
Fred Vincy, and loves Mary Garth
 Nicholas Bulstrode — Wealthy banker married to
Mr.. Vincy's sister, Harriet. He is a pious Methodist
who tries to impose his beliefs in Middlemarch
society;
 Peter Featherstone — Old landlord of Stone Court,
a self-made man who married Caleb Garth's sister
and later took Mrs. Vincy's sister as his second wife
when his first wife died.

16.  Rigg Featherstone — Featherstone's illegitimate son who
appears at the reading of Featherstone's will and is given
his fortune instead of Fred.
 John Raffles — Raffles is a braggart and a bully, a humorous
scoundrel in the tradition of Sir John Falstaff, and an
alcoholic. But unlike Shakespeare's fat knight, Raffles is a
genuinely evil man.
 Jane Waule — A widow and Peter Featherstone's sister; has a
son, John.
 Mr. Hawley — Foul-mouthed businessman and enemy of
Bulstrode.
 Mr. Mawmsey — Grocer.
 Dr. Sprague — Middlemarch doctor.
 Mr.. Tyke — Clergyman favoured by Bulstrode.