He sat with his eyes bent down, and as she went towards him she thought he looked smaller-he seemed so withered and shrunken. It was eight o’clock in the evening before the door opened and his wife entered. Instead, the “imperfectly taught” Harriet, who has her own vanities, takes off all her ornaments, puts on a plain bonnet cap and black gown, and goes to her disgraced husband. After his downfall, Bulstrode could lose everything and die a bitter man. Even as she makes them suffer, she doesn’t go all out to punish them.
Casaubon suffers almost as much as Dorothea in their incompatible marriage the spirited young wife, with all her good intentions, perhaps drives him to an early grave.Įliot pushes her characters relentlessly and doesn’t let anyone off the hook. Dorothea is a high-minded young woman who marries a shriveled old scholar. Eliot is not protective of her characters she takes them to the cliff and makes them jump. A sprawling novel about provincial life in 19th century England, Middlemarch is endowed with an urgent plot and slow-burning character development. George Eliot’s Middlemarch changed the way I think about reckoning in fiction.
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