Topic: Middlemarch as a study of cobweb relationship.Name: Patel KinjalPaper Name: The Victorian LiteraturePaper No: 6Roll No: 16Std: M.A. 1 Sem: 2Submitted to: M.K Bhavnagar University

About Author *Mary Ann Evans wrote under the pen name of George Eliot.*She had religious and spiritual speculation.*Her novels deal with the tragedy at ordinaries lives.

About novel

-Cazamin

“ Middlemarch is a study of

provincial life and the scene is

laid in the provincial town of Middlemarch in the first half

of 19th century”.

Setting of the novel*Middlemarch is George Eliot’s sixth novel.*The action takes place in Middlemarch.*Tipton Grange.*Lowick manour Freshitt Hall.*Contemporary political and social problems.*Private and personal life.

Multiplicity of Characters

*Canvas of Middlemarch*Crowded one*Host of character.*Compared with the cobweb

Mr. Edward Brooke

Dorothea Celia

Mr. Walter Vincy

Mrs. Lucy Vincy

Their Childre

n

Fred Vincy

Rosamond

Vincy

Caleb

Garth

Susan

Garth

Mary Gart

hWife

Daughter

Mr. Edward

Nicholas Bulstrode

HarrietBulstrode

wife

Title *The novel gives us realistic, vived and comprehensive picture of provincial life of England.

*A host of characters belonging to *Every profession *Age group *Walk of life

*Quentin

Anderson “It is a

landscape of opinion”

Conflict in the town

*Old and new both existed in Middlemarch*Old was dominant*Divided religion*Anglicanism

Plot of the novelThe novel’s plot is complicated.

Dorothea –Casaubon- Ladislaw story*She marries twice*She inherits Casaubon’s property*End of the novel*She takes right decision

Rosamond – Lydgate story

*False impression*She wanted extra vantage life *Upper class people

Fred Vincy- Mary Garth story

*Childhood love*He becomes good person*They had to suffer a lot

Bulstrode’s Episode

*His way of livelihood*Different stands*The novel is full of Pessimism*Gloom* Melancholy

Conclusion

-Edith Simcox

Middlemarch is

George Eliot’s

greatest work.

“ It has

scarcely a

superior and

very few

equals in the

whole range of

English

fiction.”