Name-Khalani Shabana. MPaper no-6

Year -2013&2014Sem-2

M.K.B.University.BhavnagarEnglish Department

Submit by –Heenaba ZalaTopic-Marriage&Descrvetion in Middelmarch

Marriage

IN THE NOVEL

IDEAS AND ATTITUDES

INTENTIONS

INTANTIONS

• SOCIAL • ECONOMIC

HOW THEY DIFFER

• YOUNGER • OLDER

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

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.

“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.

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.

DISCOURCE OF MONEY MINDEDDiscourse: 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.

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