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Dorothea and Casaubon
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Dorothea, an idealistic young lady, is the central figure of George Eliot's Middlemarch. She longs to devote her life to something valuable, looking up to people like St Teresa as her ideal. Contrary to all expectations, she decides to marry Casaubon, an elderly clergyman. For years, Casaubon has been preparing his magnum opus called ‘Key to All Religions’. In the milieu where Dorothea is living—a quiet English parish in the 1830s—Casaubon's scholarly project appears to her as the right object of her devotion. She would lighten the burden of his solitary labour; share his life of wisdom and pursuit of truth.
Title: Dorothea and Casaubon
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Dorothea, an idealistic young lady, is the central figure of George Eliot's Middlemarch.
She longs to devote her life to something valuable, looking up to people like St Teresa as her ideal.
Contrary to all expectations, she decides to marry Casaubon, an elderly clergyman.
For years, Casaubon has been preparing his magnum opus called ‘Key to All Religions’.
In the milieu where Dorothea is living—a quiet English parish in the 1830s—Casaubon's scholarly project appears to her as the right object of her devotion.
She would lighten the burden of his solitary labour; share his life of wisdom and pursuit of truth.
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