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This 3 page paper discusses interesting things about Dorothea in Middlemarch, by George Eliot. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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listed below. Citation styles constantly change, and these examples may not contain the most recent updates. Dorothea in Middlemarch Research Compiled
by K. Von Huben 4/2010 Please Introduction Dorothea in Middlemarch is a woman who wants to give more than her society
is willing to accept from her. This paper discusses why she is an unusual woman and whats interesting about her. Discussion Dorothea is interesting because shes a misfit. She
is beautiful and intelligent and should be a ripe prospect for marriage, but shes not, says Eliot. How could it be that a girl with so much going for her
should still be single? "Nothing could hinder it but her love of extremes, and her insistence on regulating life according to notions which might cause a wary man to hesitate
before he made her an offer, or even might lead her at last to refuse all offers" (31). She doesnt behave the way young ladies or her time were supposed
to behave: she might suddenly kneel by the bedside of a sick laborer and pray for his recovery, or fast "like a Papist," or sit up at night "to read
old theological books" (Eliot 31). A woman like this-that is, a woman who thinks for herself-would turn a household upside down, and a man would "naturally think twice before he
risked himself in such fellowship" (Eliot 31). In Dorotheas day (and Eliots), women were "expected to have weak opinions," but society was
saved by the fact that those opinions were never acted on (Eliot 31). In towns like Middlemarch, sane people "did what their neighbours did, so that if any lunatics were
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