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From: Monarch Notes
Date: 19630101
Author:Eliot, George

Eliot, George
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
Character Analysis, Critical Commentary and Essay Questions

Dorothea Brooke (later Mrs. Casaubon, Mrs. Ladislaw): The idealistic and
intelligent "heroine" of the novel, whose character and high values enable her
to surmount the difficulties which her disappointing first marriage brings.
Her second marriage is to Will Ladislaw; unlike the first, it is happy since
it is based on a realistic appraisal of her husband's personality and career.
"Her mind was theoretic, and yearned by its nature after some lofty conception
of the world which might frankly ...

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