The document summarizes key marriage issues and relationships in George Eliot's novel Middlemarch. Dorothea Brooke makes an unhappy marriage to the elderly Reverend Edward Casaubon, hoping to help with his scholarly work. However, Casaubon does not appreciate her intellect. Against Casaubon's wishes, Dorothea later marries his young cousin Will Ladislaw. Rosamond Vincy marries the idealistic doctor Tertius Lydgate but their marriage becomes unhappy as she loses interest when he loses money. Fred Vincy wishes to marry his childhood friend Mary Garth but her family wants him to become a clergyman instead of the life Mary prefers. Sir James Chettam marries Celia Brooke

1. Marriage Issue in
Middlemarch
Name : Pina Gondaliya
Enrollment No : 2069108420200012
Paper No: 6 Victorian Literature
Submitted To : Department of English

2. Middlemarch by George Eliot
● Victorian Novelist
● Her novels showcase the best
and worst parts of humanity.
● A study of provincial life.
● Middlemarch is an image of a
society, political, agricultural,
aristocratic, religious and love.
● The novel set in the fictitious
Midlands town of Middlemarch.

3. Dorothe
a,
Casaubo
n &
Ladislaw
Rosamo
nd &
Lydgate
Marriage
issue.
Fred &
mary
Garth
Clelia &
Sir
James

4. Dorothea and Casabon
● Dorothea is ian ntelligent. Casabon was a pedantic, elderly
clergyman
● Casaubon obsessed with his scholarly reasearch.
● Dorothea marries with elderly casabon, with idea of helping
him with his research project.
● Casaubon’s unfinished book The Key to All Mythologise.
● Marriage was a mistake, as Casabon does not take her
seriously.
● He was very ill, he make his will that if Dorothea marries
with Ladislow , she will lose his inheritance.

5. Dorothea and Ladislaw
● Will Ladislaw is the young cousin
of Casaubon.
● She falls in love with Casaubon’s
cousin will ladislaw.
● She defies Casaubons
Machination and marries will
even though it means losing her
inheritance as Casabons widow.

6. Rosamond Vincy &Tertius
lydgate ● Beautiful and shallow, high opinion of her
own charms and Low opinion of
Middlemarch society.
● She marries lydgate because she believes
that he will raise social standing and keep
her comfortable .
● Lydgate idealistic talented doctor. He ends
up in an unhappy marriage to Vincy.
● When he loses his money, Rosamondas
loses interest in him.

7. Fred Vincy & Mary Garth
● Mary Garth and Fred vincy
were childhood sweetheart.
● Fred family wants that he
becoming a clergyman, but he
knows that mary will not
marry him if he became
clergymen.
● He later changes because of
his love for Mary, and
studying under Mary's father.

8. Sir James and Celia Brook
● Sir James chettam is love
with Dorothea and help her
with her plans to improve
conditions for the teants.
● When Dorothea marries
Casaubon sir James marries
with her sister Celia Brook.

9. Work cited
contribution, wikipedia.
Middlemarch. 18 January
2020. 25 February 2020
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wi
ki/Middlemarch>.