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Consider other books written by George Eliot, such as Silas Marner or The Mill on the Floss.
Middlemarch is also part of a broader network of canonical Victorian novels, including works like Oliver Twist or Great Expectations by Charles Dickens.
My Life in Middlemarch by Rebecca Mead brings Eliot's themes into a more modern world that might help students better identify with the novel.
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The Question and Answer section for Middlemarch is a great resource to ask questions, find answers, and discuss the novel.
Prejudice is a theme that Lydgate and Will Ladislaw cannot seem to beat. People in Middlemarch dislike anyone who is not from Middlemarch, or anyone whose reputation seems questionable. Will and Lydgate are both good people, but it is initial...
Victorian society is rigid and strict. Money, wealth, and class structure are written in stone. Social position means a great deal in Middlemarch; it means how much respect a person gets, how people treat them, how they are regarded, etc. People...
Dorothea Brooke is the oldest of two daughters, and raised by her bachelor uncle, Mr. Brooke. Dorothea is an excessively religious, pious girlto the extent that she withdraws from the activities she likes most, and convinces herself to marry a...
