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This 3 page paper briefly discusses the characters of Dorothea and Rev. Casaubon in Middlemarch. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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the characters actually lead lives that could be real. This paper considers two of the books characters and the way in which they view others as existing mainly for their
own benefit. It also discusses how their misperceptions change other characters; finally, it asks if being self-centered is always a bad thing. Discussion It seems that many of the characters
in the book are essentially unaware of anyone or anything but themselves, but for our purposes well consider only two: Dorothea and the hapless man she marries, Casaubon. Dorothea is
a young woman whose society forbids her to be anything other than someones wife. This is the highest goal to which a woman of her century can aspire, but she
has dreams of making a difference in the world. In fact, she is so focused on her ideals that she is blind to everything else. In the first chapter she
is introduced as having a "theoretic" mind, which made her year after "some lofty conception of the world which might frankly include the parish of Tipton and her own rule
of conduct there; she was enamoured of intensity and greatness, and rash in embracing whatever seemed to her to have those aspects ..." (Eliot 30). In addition she is "likely
to seek martyrdom," then try to escape it only to have it befall her when she stopped looking for it (Eliot 30). A few pages later, she is again described
as "ardent, theoretic, and intellectually consequent: and with such a nature, [she struggles] ... in the bands of a narrow teaching, hemmed in by a social life which seemed nothing
but a labyrinth of petty courses, a walled-in maze of small paths that led no whither ..." (Eliot 51). She didnt want to live bounded by rules that were accepted
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