critical note on " politics of Relationship " in middlemarch
1. Critical note on “ Politics of
Relationship” in Middlemarch
Name : Parmar Krupa Jivabhai
Roll no. : 20
Enrollment no. : 2069108420180040
M.A. Sem. : 2
Batch year : 2017-19
Email id : parmarkrupaj25@gmail.com
Paper no : 6
Submitted to : Department of English
Bhavnagar
2. Introduction of George Eliot
Born in 22
November 1819.
Died in 22 December
1880.
George Eliot’s real
name is “ Marry
Anne” and her pet
name is “ George
Eliot”.
Eliot is an a English
novelist.
She is writer of
Victorian Era.
3. Introduction of Middlemarch
1871 a novel by
George Eliot about the
people who in an
imaginary town in
central England called
Middlemarch during a
time of social and
economical reform .
Many people consider
it to be one of the
greatest novel in
English .
It’s subtitle is “ study of
provincial life” .
4. Major Characters…..
Dorothea brook
Edward Casaubon
Rosamond Vincy
Tertius Lydgate
Mary Garth
Fred Vincy
Celia
James
5. Different Political Conflicts…..
Old and New ( church ) politics
Class ( upper – middle – lower )
politics
Gender politics ( Man – Woman )
Power politics
Relationship politics
Spiritual politics
6. Politics in Middlemarch…..
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 matter , 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 .
9. Three major Love stories…..
1. Dorothea and
Casaubon
2. Rosamond
and Lydgate
3. Marry Garth
and Fred Vinci
10. Why Dorothea married
Casaubon ?
She thinks
Casaubon is great
intellectual .
Her ambition was
to take on a noble
project , but she
fails in her purpose
.
Here Casaubon
married her
because he thinks
that she is fully
11. Why Lydgate married Rosamond
?
Lydgate falls in
love with
Rosamond Vinci .
While Rosamond
thinks about him as
he is rich .
Both are
disappointed from
each other .
12. Why Marry married Fred ?
Marry tells Fred
that she will not
Marry if he
becomes a
clergyman .
Her condition
saves Fred from an
unhappy
entrapment in an
occupation he
doesn’t like .
13. Conclusion…..
George Eliot’s describes all
negativities of the age , she leads
reader to the morality of life .
We can see political angle everywhere
in this character driven novel either in
visible or in hidden form .