politics of relationship in middlemarch

1. Name :- Mansi Upadhyay
Roll no :- 18
Semester :- 2
Year :- 2018-19
Paper no :- 6 ( The Victorian literature)
Topic :- Politics of relationship in
Middlemarch
E-mail :-
mansiupadhyay06@gmail.com
Submitted to :- Department of English
Maharaja Krishnakumrsinhji Bhavnagar
University

2. Introduction of George Eliot
 Born 22 November
1819.
 Died, on 22
December 1880.
 Her real name is
“merry Anny” and
pet name is “
George Eliot”
 Eliot is English
novelist
 She is writer of the
Victorian era

3. About the novel ‘Middlemarch’
 Middle march is bulky
novel.
 it’s subtitle is “study of
provincial life”.
 it’s a Victorian novel.
 The novel refuses make
promises
 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.

4. Different political conflicts
 old and new (church)
politics.
 class (upper-middle-
lower) politics.
 Gender politics (man-
woman).
 power politics.
 relationship politics.
 spiritual politics.

5. 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 matters, like
all things, get personal; people decide who or who not to
support by how they like them, even more so something
than any dependence on issues.

6. Major characters:
• Dorothea brook
• Edward casaubon
• Rosamond vinci
• Tortious lydgat
• Mary Garth
• Fred Vincy

7. Politics of relationship
Pride
Politics of
relationsh
ip
Prejudi
ce
Politics
Power

8. Three major love stories:
Dorothea and
casaubon
Rosamond and
Lydgate
Mary garth and
Fred vinci

9. 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 worshipful.

10. Why Lydgate married Rosamond?
 Lydgate is an idealistic and
an ambitious doctor, moves
to Middlemarch to set up a
practice with his new
tangled idea about
medicine and science.
 Lydgate falls in love with
Rosamond vincy because
she is very beautiful and
charming than other girls.
 Rosamond also thinks that
he is rich.
 both are married
 both are disappointed
from each other.

11. Marriage of Fred and Mary
 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.

12. 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.
• in this novel we have see money is at the center of
every relationship. Because of money we have see
politics in every relationship.