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Eliot's 'Middlemarch.' (George Eliot)

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From: The Explicator
Date: 19950101
Author:Green, Janet M.

The importance of Harriet as a character in George Eliot's 'Middlemarch' is often overlooked. Many concepts in the novel are being represented by Harriet, however, her primary function is to endorse the qualities of loyalty, affection, courage, compassion and honesty. Another vital image that Harriet provides is her being obverse to the character of her husband which portrays the villain in the novel.

The Nicholas and Harriet Bulstrode subplot of George Eliot's Middle-march (1872) is part of a main subject of the great novel: the union of the worthy spouse with a more-or-less unworthy one. ...

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