2. •Every thing for woman,
even for her reading and
much more any public acts
depends on marriage and
society in Middlemarch.
•They are accepted to obey
and fall in line.

3. Dorothea - Casaubon
• Dorothea marry with
Casaubon is a satire against
young ladies who aim at
lofty ideals.
• Dorothea second marriage
with Ladislaw, it’s reveals her
growth as a person because
both members are equals.
• Second marriage of
Dorothea it also revels that
for woman marriage is
compulsory in Victorian age.

4. Lydgate - Rosamond
•Rosamond comes from a
middle class background but
her primary motivation is
social advancement.
•She is too much influence by
aristocratic society, that ruins
her marriage and happiness.
•She genuinely love Lydgate
but when he loses his money,
Rosamond loses interest in
him.

5. •The novel centers around two failures which are
the central of the novel. The failure of Dorothea
and Lydgate and they live up to their full potential.
They are in the struggle to make the world
beautiful.
•They fail to achieve their high ideals.
•Here we can say that the theme of the novel is the
search for good and meaningful work and the
societal pressure that hampers this.