Resumo de Middlemarch - George Eliot

Middlemarch is George Eliot?s masterpiece. In it ,George Eliot constructs one of the remarkable novels of the century. The novel is set in a Warwickshire town of the Reform period. The title means ?middle of the marches?i.e. typically provincial. Here George Eliot denigrates a society that denies ample scope to intellect and culture. The intellectual Dorothea Brooke interests Sir James Chettam. But he marries the pompous scholar, Edward Casaubon.ir James marries her vivacious sister Celia. Casaubon?s second cousin, Will Ladislaw is keen on seeking Dorothea?s hands in marriage. Casaubon gets stubborn to deny is property to Dorothea if she marries Will. Attending the dying Casaubon is Dr. Tertius Lydgate ,a would-be medical researcher, who is drawn into the orbit of Middlemarch?s influential banker, Nicholas Bulstrode.Rosamond Vincy feels attracted to Lydgate and draws closer to him.The drunken Rffles ,blackmailing Bulstrode because of the banker?s shady past ,dies under Lydgate?s treatment and causes accusations of malpractice Dorothea supports Lydgate who moves to London and at his wife?s insistence becomes a fashionable society physician. Dorothea nad Will marry at last. Rosamond?s weak brother is assured of a better future by marriage to the excellent Mary Garth. George Eliot fills the canvas with a host of memorable minor characters. Her technical ability is proved by her flawless dovetailing of the Dorothea-Lydgate plots originally planned as separate stories. Eliot delves into an intellectual criticism of the era. The aaaaaaambience calls for proper self-realisation and creativity to the solid, non-intellectual Mary Garth ,but Dorothea with her searching constructive spirit is doomed to frustration. In the modern times, the novel has been acclaimed as the greatest English novel, largely because it was the first novel in English language definitely concerned with the intellectual life. The novel is remarkable for the structural unity achieved by the use of contract, parallelism and by what E.M.Forster says ?rhythm?. The multifarious spectacles of life have been brought together by a unity of design. The novel is great for its intellectual criticism as well as for its technical ability. Dr. Ketaki Datta

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