1. Name-Khalani Shabana. M
Paper no-6
Year -2013&2014
Sem-2
M.K.B.University.Bhavnagar
English Department
Submit by –Heenaba Zala
Topic-Marriage&Descrvetion in Middelmarch

2. Marriage
IN THE NOVEL
IDEAS AND ATTITUDES
INTENTIONS

3. INTANTIONS
• SOCIAL • ECONOMIC

4. HOW THEY DIFFER
• YOUNGER • OLDER

5. Analysis:
• Dorothea Brooke and Celia Brooke are sisters.
• Contradictions in their nature
• Middlemarch is a novel of relations.
• A story of an idealistic young girl
• Her ambition in life is to help people.
• Her marriage with a dried-up old scholar named
Casaubon, thinking that helping him in his research will be the
project she will do after marriage. After marriage she
discovers that her husband cares more for his research than
her.
• Her matrimonial life ruined.
• Tertius Lydgate an idealistic doctor. Marries with Rosamond
Vincy

6. STUDY OF PROVINCIAL LIFE
The subtitle of Eliot’s Middlemarch, “A Study of Provincial
Life”, succinctly demonstrates her breadth of ambition.
Eliot is not merely concerned with the individual narratives
but also with the society at large.
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.

7. “Three Love Problems”- but one can understand the novel’s
structure in light of three marriages.
Its primary focus is Dorothea Brooke. Dorothea, the novel’s
Spinozan 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
Rosamund Vincy. Both Dorothea and Rosamund 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.
Middlemarch appears as a warning against rash marriages.
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.

8. Middlemarch- the place is difficult to enter.
It does not present ideas clearly. Ambiguous
Middlemarch warns one not to be rash and to be
prudent about one’s expectations, but also raises
important points about the relationship between the
personal and the political and the implications on
responsibility therein.
One’s actions have social repercussions for which one is
responsible.
The novel indirectly leads to more important
concerns, such as the relationship between decision
and determinism.

9. DISCOURCE OF MONEY MINDED
Discourse: a general term for a number of approaches to analyzing
written, vocal, or sign language use or any significant semiotic event.
The focus of discourse analysis is any form of written or spoken language. It
concerns the sorts of tools and strategies people use when engaged in
communication, such as slowing one's speech for emphasis, use of
metaphors, choice of particular words to display affect, and so on.
The investigator attempts to identify
categories, themes, ideas, views, roles, and so on, within the text itself. The
investigator tries to answer questins such as how the discourse helps us
understand the issue under study, how people construct their own version of
an event, and how people use discourse to maintain or construct their own
identity.

10. THANK YOU