1. Name: Vaghela Sejal Pareshbhai
No. 29
Paper No.6
Paper Name:
The Victorian Literature
Submitted to:
Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavanagar
University.
2. Point of view of the writer: George
Eliot
George Eliot was born in 1819 and she was
died in 1880.
She is a English Victorian novelist.
Her Major works are:
- Adam Bede (1859)
- The Mill on the Floss (1860)
- Silas Marner (1861)
- Daniel Deronda (1876)
- Middlemarch (1871-72)
3. Middlemarch:
Main Characters of this novel:
○ Dorothea Brooke
○ Mr.Casaubone
○ Rosamond Vincy
○ Tertius Lydgate
○ Mary
○ Fred
4. A study of Provincial life:
By telling the story of three young women of slightly
different classes, their suitors and the social milieu in
which their relationships develop, Eliot is able to show
the nuances of class in the 1830s.
She focuses primarily on higher classes capable of
instigating change. She thereby demonstrates the reciprocal
influence of individual narrative and broader social trends.
“Three Love Problems”- but one can understand the novel’s
structure in light of three marriages.
7. Its primary focus is Dorothea Brooke. Dorothea, the
novel’s Spinoza core, believes in the supremacy of
knowledge and thinks she can find wisdom by marrying
and assisting an elderly would-be scholar. In her
eponymous section, Dorothea is visited by Dr.
Lydgate, who quickly marries town beauty Rosamond
Vincy. Both Dorothea and Rosamond are unhappy
in their marriages. Only Mary Garth, a poor
woman who waits for her beloved to find financial
stability before marriage, does not regret her
decision.
The stories of Dorothea’s uncle’s political
career, Lydgate’s medical practice, and Mr. Garth’s
business are as important as the romances. The
personal and the political are inextricably linked in
Middlemarch.
