Politics of relationship in Middlemarch

Name: Trivedi Hezal K.Roll No: 35

PG Reg. No. PG15101040M.A. – English Regular, Semester-2

Year: 2016Course No. 6: The Victorian literatureUnit-2 – Middlemarch ( George Eliot)

Assignments Topic- Politics of relationship in Middlemarch Submitted to: S.B. Gardi Department of English

Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar University (Gujarat – India)

Introduction• 1871 a novel by George

Eliot about the people who in an imaginary town in central England called Middlemarch during a time of social and economical reform.

• Many people consider it to be one of the greatest novel in English.

Different political conflicts

• Old and new (church) politics

• Class (Upper–Middle-Lower) politics

• Gender politics (Man-Woman)

• Power politics• Relationship politics• Spiritual politics

Politics in Middlemarch

• Everything is political in Middlemarch, with most people strongly backing the conservative party. Personal alliances and aversions are based on matters of politics and political identification. But even political matters, like all things, get personal; people decide who or who not to support by how they like them, even more so sometimes than any dependence on issues.

Characters

• Dorothea Brooke• Edward Casaubon• Rosamond Vincy• Tertius Lydgate• Fred Vincy• Mary garth• Will Ladislaw• Celia• James

Relationship

Dorothea <-> CasaubonDorothea <-> LadislawLydgate <-> RosamondFred <-> MaryCelia <-> James

Politics of relationship

Politics in relationships

Rosamond – Lydgate

• False Impression• She wanted extra

vantage life• Upper class people

Fred Vincy – Mary Garth

• Childhood love• He becomes good

person• They had to suffer a lot

Conclusion

• George Eliot’s describes all negativities of the age , she leads reader to the morality of life. We can see political angle everywhere in this character driven novel either in visible or in hidden form.

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