COMPARISON BETWEEN DOROTHEA AND

ROSAMONDDHARABA GOHIL

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Paper no. 6 The Victorian Age Smt. S. B. Gardi. Dept. of English

Introduction of writerMary Anne Evans (22 November 1819 – 22 December 1880; alternatively "Mary Ann" or "Marian"), known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, poet, journalist, translator and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era.

She is the author of seven novels, including Adam Bede (1859), The Mill on the Floss (1860), Silas Marner (1861), Middlemarch (1871–72), and Daniel Deronda (1876), most of which are set in provincial England and known for their realism and psychological insight.

Introduction about Middlemarch Middlemarch in just a

few words, we might say that it's a novel about social and political reform.

But it's also a novel about love and marriage. And about trying and failing.

And about second chances. It is, in other words, a huge and wide-ranging novel.

About Dorothea Brooke There are a lot of major characters

in Middlemarch, and even more minor ones, but it's pretty obvious that Dorothea's the heroine.

After all, the novel's Prelude and Finale are about Dorothea, and she certainly gets more face time than any of the other major characters.

But that's not the only reason we consider her the heroine: Dorothea is also the moral center of the novel.

She is a patient lady. This brings up another important

aspect to Dorothea's character – her spirituality and religious fervor. It's no accident that so many characters associate her with angels, saints, or the Virgin Mary.

About Rosamond Vincy Rosamond isn't out to marry the

richest person who proposes to her because Lydgate's not the richest by a long shot;

she just doesn't think about it at all. Thinking about money would be beneath her. The line, "she never thought of money" suggests that she just doesn't think at all.

She assumes that someone – some vague "other people" – will always take care of her and provide enough money for her to have all the luxuries to which she's always been accustomed.

Comparison between Rosamond and Dorothea

Rosamond Vincy competes with Dorothea as the major female character of the novel. Like Dorothea, she's very beautiful, but her beauty is of a different kind.

Dorothea is very womanly and maternal, and is frequently compared to a saint. Rosamond, on the other hand, is always described as "infantine" – she's so blonde and fair that she looks childlike. The contrast between Dorothea and Rosamond is even played out in their names.

While "Dorothea" means "gift of the gods" (see Dorothea's "Character Analysis" section for more on her spirituality), "Rosamond" means "rose of the world.

" Dorothea might seem like a saint, but Rosamond is thoroughly human. Her beauty isn't otherworldly like Dorothea's; it's completely of this world. So when some admiring Middlemarch“ called her an angel" we have to assume that they're deceived: Rosamond's no angel.

Conclusion Charming characters such as Dorothea and Rosamond, two

very different women who reflected in them the different tunes of the times.

To highlight the cause of women, Eliot made a rather calculated move and brought in marriage as a very important theme in Middlemarch. Attack comments on the importance of marriage, “Competing with men and male-indoctrinated commerce without the added benefit of a formal education caused many Victorian women to seek the only alternative available, marriage as a vocation.

But George Eliot’s portrayal of marriage was such that, lots of critics began considering it as a treatise in favor of divorce. If it had been Elliot’s intention to write about such a controversial.

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