Middlemarch as a study of Cobweb

1. 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

2. Middlemarch
COBWEB
as a study of

3. 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

4. “ Middlemarch
represents the lives of
ordinary people not
grand adventures of
princes and kings”.
About novel

5. • 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

6. • Canvas of Middlemarch
• Crowded one
• Host of character.
• Compared with the cobweb

7. Mr. Edward
Brooke
Dorothea Celia

8. Their
Children
Fred Vincy
Rosamond
Vincy
Mr. Walter
Vincy
Mrs. Lucy
Vincy
Vincy Family

10.  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

11. Quentin Anderson
“It is a landscape
of opinion”

12. • Old and new both existed in
Middlemarch
• Old was dominant
• Divided religion
• Anglicanism
 Conflict in the town

13.  Plot of the novel
Plot of
the
novel
Dorothea-
Casaubon-
Ladislaw
story
Bulstrode’s
episode
Fred Vincy-
Mary
Garth story
Rosamond-
Lydgate
story

14. Dorothea –Casaubon- Ladislaw story
• She marries twice
• She inherits Casaubon’s property
• End of the novel she takes right
decision

15. Rosamond – Lydgate story
• False impression
• She wanted extra vantage life
• Upper class people

16. Fred Vincy-Mary Garth story
• Childhood love
• He becomes good person
• They had to suffer a lot

17. Bulstrode’s Episode
• His way of livelihood
• Different stands
• The novel is full of Pessimism
• Gloom
• Melancholy