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This 8 page paper discusses the character of Will Ladislaw in “Middlemarch,” and why he remains mysterious despite his many interactions with other characters. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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mysterious. This paper discusses Ladislaw and how his background and interactions with other characters make him one of the most mysterious figures in the novel. Discussion Middlemarch is generally considered
George Eliots finest novel, perhaps largely because of the psychological depth she gives to her characters. The women in the novel, especially Dorothea Brooke, the heroine, generally are stronger and
smarter than the men, and yet their ambitions are not usually to aspire to great things themselves, but to help their husbands to do so. Dorothea is very young, idealistic,
and dedicated to doing good. She is considered a bit odd by the people in the neighborhood, and there is something of the martyr in her: she would have married
John Milton "when his blindness came on, or any of the other great men whose odd habits it would have been glorious piety to endure" (Eliot). She believes that the
"really delightful marriage must be that where your husband was a sort of father, and could teach you even Hebrew, if you wished it" (Eliot). Dorothea then is casting any
potential husband in the role of father and teacher, not partner. Although she is only 18 when the novel opens, and very much loved by a young baronet, Sir
James Chettam, she marries instead the Reverend Edward Casaubon, who is much older than she is, because she thinks shes found her "teacher" in him: "This was the Reverend Edward
Casaubon, noted in the county as a man of profound learning, understood for many years to be engaged on a great work concerning religious history; also as a man of
wealth enough to give luster to his piety" (Eliot). When he, Dorothea, her sister Celia and their father, among others, are chatting, Mr. Casaubon says that he has little time
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