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George Eliot and the ambiguity of murder.
From: Studies in the Novel
Date: 19930322
Author:Alley, Henry
Murder is a recurring source of ambiguity in George Eliot's fiction. Hetty Sorrel in 'Adam Bede,' Baldassarre Calvo in 'Romola,' Nicholas Bulstrode in 'Middlemarch' and Gwendolen Harleth in 'Daniel Deronda' were characters whose acts of murder allowed Eliot new poetic insight into unresolved linguistic uncertainties. For Eliot, the complications that may or may not justify a murder stimulated considerable moral and artistic anxiety.
Violent or shocking death is omnipresent in George Eliot's fiction, and if one were to create a line-up of all her agents and victims of murderous intrigue, ...
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