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The Despair of Middlemarch
I was particularly fond of the following quote, and it is thus the theme of my discussion: “But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope” (468). [Narration after Will laments that he and … Continue reading
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Tagged Casaubon, despair, Dorothea, marriage, Middlemarch, misread, narration, point of view, widow, Will Ladislaw
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Dorothea’s Evolving Relationships
Throughout the reading of Middlemarch, we are constantly being asked to assess each character and evaluate whether or not we can connect with them. Eliot, through the narrator, calls into question the forming of bonds between people, both within the … Continue reading
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Tagged bonds, Casaubon, Dorothea, ethics, Middlemarch, narrator, social network, Will Ladislaw
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What’s Blood Got To Do With It?
“‘He has got no good red blood in his body,’ said Sir James. ‘No. Somebody put a drop under a magnifying-glass, and it was all semicolons and parentheses,’ said Mrs Cadwallader”. (65) What is the connection between Casaubon, language and … Continue reading
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Tagged Casaubon, diction, linking language and character, Middlemarch, syntax
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