Finale
Many who knew her, thought it a pity that so substantive and rare a creature should have been absorbed into the life of another... no one stated exactly what else that was in her power she ought rather to have done.Read in Books4Free →
The Controversial Finale: Dorothea's Second Marriage
From Middlemarch by George Eliot
Critics from Henry James onward debated whether Dorothea's marriage to Will is a diminishment of her epic potential; Eliot defends it as the cost of an imperfect society.
Finale
'For there is no creature whose inward being is so strong that it is not greatly determined by what lies outside it.' The novel's defense of social determinism.
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