Chapter 21
We are all of us born in moral stupidity, taking the world as an udder to feed our supreme selves.' On Dorothea's recognition that Casaubon has 'an equivalent centre of self.Read in Books4Free →
The Narrator's Voice and Doctrine of Sympathy
From Middlemarch by George Eliot
Eliot's intrusive philosophical narrator articulates her ethics of sympathy and the equal moral weight of every consciousness.
Chapter 29
'But why always Dorothea? Was her point of view the only possible one with regard to this marriage?' The narrator pivots to Casaubon's inner life.
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