The Web: Eliot's Master Metaphor

From Middlemarch by George Eliot
The image of the web — of society, of human relations, of tissue under the microscope — is the novel's signature structural metaphor.
Chapter 15
I at least have so much to do in unraveling certain human lots, and seeing how they were woven and interwoven.
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Chapter 11
Old provincial society had its share of this subtle movement... municipal town and rural parish gradually made fresh threads of connection.
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