Essays on Middlemarch

Where Dorothea struggles to be the perfect wife, Rosamond Vincy aspires to attain the perfect life in her efforts and schemes to win the courtship of Tertius Lydgate and propel herself into a higher class. Eliot illustrates Rosamond as a conditioned woman who knows the rules of Victorian rules backward and forwards and exploits the loopholes her femininity creates so that a man “remaining a bachelor will usually depend on her resolution rather than on his” (Eliot 102). Wanting to…...

A Study of Provincial Life, George Eliot’s Middlemarch explores life and death, reputation, and the gossip and scandal in between - found within the eponymous fictional town as it’s relayed through its female characters, specifically that of Dorothea Brooke, Rosamond Vincy, and Mary Garth. It’s through Dorothea’s consummate devotion to Edward Casaubon and subsequent fallout with his memory after his death, Rosamond’s desperation to obtain and maintain social standing by proxy of Tertius Lydgate which leads to her inadvertent financial…...

The essay sample on Middlemarch Summary By Chapter dwells on its problems, providing a shortened but comprehensive overview of basic facts and arguments related to it. To read the essay, scroll down.She disliked anything which reminded her that her mother’s father had been an innkeeper” (pg 101). She actively seeks to increase her social standing by marrying Lydgate, a doctor, a man of ‘good birth’. At first, Lydgate seemed to shy away from Rosamond, but she soon got her prey…...