Name: Gohil Khanjaniba M.Class: MA(Part-1)(Semester-1).

Subject: The Victorian Literature.Roll No: 15.

Submitted to: The Department Of English, Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji

Bhavnagar University,Bhavnagar.

MIDDLEMARCH (PLOT WITH SECRETS)

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George Eliot’s seventh novel: “Middlemarch: A Study of provincial Life”, Begun in 1869(1871-72).The

novel was appeared as a serial during 1871-1872.

GEORGE ELIOT

Virginia Woolf suggests: “The magnificent book that, with all its

imperfections, is one of the few English novels written for grown-up people”.

Martin Amis and Julian Barnes have cited it as probably the greatest novel in the

English language.

INFORMATION ABOUT THE NOVEL

Will Ladisla

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Dorothea

Brooke

Sir James Chetta

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Nicholas

Bulstrode

Reverend

Edward Casaub

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MAJOR CHARACTERS IN THE NOVEL

A picture of Dorothea Brooke and

Will Ladislaw

Sir James Chettam is in love with Dorothea, but he marries Celia Brooke instead.

Reverend Edward who just used Dorothea as a tool to achieve his goal, but Dorothea came to know about his reality after her marriage to him, in Rome.

Dorothea seen Will Ladislaw as an unfortunate relative but others doesn’t knows the actual circumstances.

At the end of the novel Dorothea gives a shock to her family informing that she will marry Will Ladislaw.

PLOT OF THE NOVEL

Mr. Bulstrode, he is also religious zealot with a secret past.

John Raffles blackmails him.Bulstrode was engaged with extensional

financial dealings.Fortune to marry much more wealthy widow.Dorothea and Farebrother maintain faith in

Lydgate. Main stories which are left suspended.

MINOR PLOT SECRET OF THE NOVEL