Name: Nikunj Bhatti

Roll no.:19

M.A. Semester: 2

Enrolment No.: 14101005

Year: 2014-15

Paper no.: 6 Victorian Literature

Submitted to: Department of English

Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar University

Middlemarch

COBWEB

as a study of

She is a English Victorian

novelist.

Mary Ann Evans wrote

under the pen name of

George Eliot.

She had religious and

spiritual speculation.

George Eliot

“ Middlemarch

represents the lives of

ordinary people not

grand adventures of

princes and kings”.

About 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.

Setting of the novel

• Canvas of Middlemarch

• Crowded one

• Host of character.

• Compared with the cobweb

Mr. Edward

Brooke

Dorothea Celia

Their

Children

Fred Vincy

Rosamond

Vincy

Mr. Walter

Vincy

Mrs. Lucy

Vincy

Vincy Family

Title

• The novel gives us realistic, vivid and

comprehensive picture of provincial life

of England.

• “Middlemarch: A Study of provincial Life”,

• The Society of Middlemarch

• Anthropological study of People

Quentin Anderson

“It is a landscape

of opinion”

• Old and new both existed in

Middlemarch

• Old was dominant

• Divided religion

• Anglicanism

Conflict in the town

Plot of the novel

Plot of the

novel

Dorothea-Casaubon-Ladislaw

story

Bulstrode’sepisode

Fred Vincy-Mary

Garth story

Rosamond-Lydgate

story

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