"Don't let your pride get in the way of your relationships." " George Eliot, "Middlemarch" George Eliot's extensive saga, "Middlemarch," is about married couple, Rosamond and Lydgate. ... George Elliot manages to let the reader understand the complex relationship between the newly wed couple, as they face financial issues through the use of dialogue and third person omniscient, which thoroughly allows reader to see what Rosamond and Lydgate are individually thinking as they try to find a solution to their complex arguments....

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

At the point in the novel when this passage was presented, George Eliot has established numerous ideals of English provincial life in the 1830's. In books I and II, George Eliot has introduced two main struggles or principles dealt with during this time period. ... Acknowledging the ideals of marriage within this Middlemarch society' aids in examining some of the changes in ideas that occur inside their culture. ... Eliot enables herself to critique the idea of Enlightenment individualism with the union of Dorothea and Casaubon. In Middlemarch, the couple either improves or weak...

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