Middlemarch Essay -- Literary Analysis, Elliot

Middlemarch, a Victorian novel written by George Elliot, depicts a realistic view of a conventional society in the 18th century. Middlemarch, the town in England where the setting of the novel takes place, embodies many provincial characters who argon affected by the social world where they live and interact with separately opposite. The novel focuses on many of the characters and their relationships as part of a only in a human social web. Among the many characters, the main ones accept Dorothea Brooke, a beautiful, good, and caring boylike woman, but very nave and lordly Edward Casaubon, a boring old scholar who marries Dorothea Rosamond Vincy, a gorgeous young woman, but very egoistic and self-centered Tertius Lydgate, a brilliant and free physician who marries Rosamond Will Ladislaw, a passionate young artist who move in love with Dorothea and later marries her after Mr. Casaubons death Fred Vincy, a good-natured young man who is often in debt and Mary Garth, a plain wom an, but very kind and sensible. Elliot focuses heavily on the realities of uniting and the incompatibility mingled with a couple based on majestic notions about each other and unification in general. Idealism leads to the hardship of the wedlocks between Dorothea Brooke and Edward Casaubon and Tertius Lydgate and Rosamond Vincy. The downfall of these two unions stands in stark contrast with the espousal between Fred Vincy and Mary Garth. Fred and Mary do not have marvellous notions about each other and are realistic in their intellection and approach to marriage which is the reason for their success and mutual happiness. Dorotheas bet on marriage is also a success because she does not base her cerebration and happiness on ideal beliefs.In the beginning of ... ...rd and the union between Tertius and Rosamond. The marriages between these couples are failures because they are blind to the faults of their spouses. It is only after marriage that these characters realize the m istakes that they made. The ideal visions are crushed by the depressing reality. They cannot enshroud to idealize when they learn and see the truth. The marriage between Fred and Mary and the marriage between Dorothea and Will are successful because they are free from the ideals that hide the truth and cause unhappiness. These couples did not hold high expectations for each other or for their marriages. They saw and accepted reality as it was and humbled themselves. The noble-mindedness in the novel only led to the downfall and unhappiness of the characters in their marriages. The successful marriages on the other hand were free from high expectations and ideals.