Essays on Middlemarch

Marriage — the act of uniting two beings under vows that uphold morals to honor, love and cherish for as long as both partners shall live — is undoubtedly one of the oldest traditions known to human existence. There may not be an era as…

Realism is an imperative theme across Middlemarch and Great Expectations. “The primary aim of realism is to represent real life for the time it is written, and it is the job of the author to create a number of different techniques in order to do…

 Abuse of characters is by and large filled by external causes. On account of Madame Bovary and Middlemarch, outside causes like sex norms result in the oppression of our female counterparts. In Madame Bovary, society’s desires of a wifely figure limits Emma’s want to climb the social…

Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte, Great Expectations by Charles Dicken’s and Middlemarch by George Eliot simultaneously display the notion that the form is one of the ways it can be understood in relation to the specific historical context from which it emerges. Additionally, they similarly…

The status of women in the Victorian era is often seen as an illustration of the striking discrepancy between the United Kingdom’s national power and wealth and what many, then and now, consider its appalling social conditions. During the era symbolized by the reign of…

What is Realism Literature? The realist literary movement came about in the latter half of the 19th century as a reaction to the ideals of the Romantic period which preceded it. While the works of Romantic authors were characterized by an emphasis on imagination and…

Eliot and the Pier-Glass George Eliot introduces a fascinating metaphor in Middlemarch in order to make the claim that the world does not have any inherent order; individual perspectives create different illusions of the world. The compelling central image of the pier-glass allows for different…