Posted on 03/13/2015 7:58:48 AM PDT by C19fan
Though Middlemarch has a large cast of characters involved in intricately related plots, Dorothea Brooke stands out as the books heroine. The narrative begins and ends with her. Book I of the novels eight Books is Miss Brooke.
She is a young woman of simple beauty and surpassing decency. She yearns idealistically to benefit humanity, or subordinate herself as the helpmate of a great man like John Milton in his blindness. Yet she is exceedingly foolish.
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You seem to be really taken by this book. It’s not generally considered one of the greats of Victorian lit, but it does seem to have earned a latter-day revival. It will be my next classical endeavor, as soon as I complete Livy’s “History of Ancient Rome.”
I’m a big fan of anything by Trollope.
I’m in the process of re-reading now.
I really enjoyed the BBC production of “Middlemarch.” I haven’t read the book, but most likely it’s even better.
There have been stories about a movie version in development but it seems to be dormant.
I enjoy the historical references and background. There was a reason Eliot chose that particular time with a lot of changes about to be unleashed.
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