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This 3 page paper sketches Dorothea and looks at her growth and change over the course of the novel. 4 sources cited.
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in Middlemarch, but later on we learn to recognize some of our own feelings in her, such as the let down she feels over her husband, who has proven to
be less than she imagined him. The purpose of Eliots treatment of Dorothea in the novel is to show the growth of her protagonist from an idealist to a realist,
which frees to become a character that matters. Character Background Dorothea is the typical uptight
woman of privilege in Victorian society, but in her case, she has given up worldly possessions for a higher purpose that exists in her mind. She will eventually come down
to earth in the novel, accepting herself as an individual. In the beginning, she is an idealist. Her mind is focused on the
esoteric, rather than daily life. She is constantly kneeling down "on a brick floor by the side of a sick labourer and pray[ing] . . . fervidly, as if she
thought herself living in the time of the Apostles" (Eliot, p. 9). This is because she has "high-minded notions" about what is meaningful in life. Guth writes that this makes
Dorothea lack warmth, that she has no meaning in her own life because she is not really living it; she has chosen to live some other life in her mind.
She "renounces worldly concerns in favour of her ideals" (Guth, 913). Greiner says that the reader is confused by this, saying
many readers "will go astray by missing ironies they ought to discover or discovering ones not there "(Greiner, 324). In Middlemarch, the readers are confused because Dorothea gives up things
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