Middlemarch for feminist perspective:

           Introduction:-
               
                 Middlemarch, A Study of Provincial Life is a novel by the English author George Eliot, first published in eight instalments in 1871–1872. The novel is set in the fictitious Midlands town of Middlemarch during 1829–1832, and follows several distinct, intersecting stories with a large cast of characters.In the hand of George Eliot novel was not only vehicle for Entertainment but rather means of human predicament. This thing we can see in her book Middlemarch.  The full title of the novel Middlemarch is Middlemarch; A study of provincial life.
Middlemarch is name of town and that is why we found so many characters in the novel and every character has there own story  though they connect with the story of Novel.

                
        In the hand of George Eliot novel was not only vehicle for Entertainment but rather means of human predicament. This thing we can see in her book Middlemarch.  The full title of the novel Middlemarch is Middlemarch; A study of provincial life.
Middlemarch is name of town and that is why we found so many characters in the novel and every character has there own story  though they connect with the story of Novel.

Morover, Eliot's many critics found Middlemarch to be too depressing for a woman writer. Eliot refused to bow to the conventions of a happy ending. An ill - advised marriage between two people who are inherently incompatible never becomes completely harmonious. In fact, it becomes a yoke. Such us the case in the marriage of Lydgate and Dorothea.Dorothea was saved from living with her mistakes for her whole life because her elderly husband dies of a heart attack, Lydgate and Rosamond, on the other hand, married young.

Two major life choices govern the narrative of Middlemarch. One is marriage and the other is vocation. Eliot takes both choices very seriously. Short, romantic courtship lead to trouble, because both parties entertain unrealistic ideals of each other. They marry without getting to know one another. Marriage based on compatibility work better. Moreover, marriages in which women have a greater say also work better, such as the marriage between Fred and Mary. She tells him she will not marry if he becomes a clergyman. Her condition saves Fred from an unhappy entrapment in an occupation he doesn't like. Dorothea and Causabon struggle continually because Causabon attempts to make her submit to his control. The same applies in the marriage between Lydgate and Rosamond.

The choice of an occupation by which one earns a living is also an important element in the book. Eliot illustrates the consequences of making the wrong choice. she also details at great length the consequences of  confining women to the domestic sphere alone. Dorothea's passinate ambition for social reform is never realized. She ends with a happy marriage, but there is some sense that her end as merely a wife and mother is a waste. Rosamond's shrewd capabilitites degenerate into vanity and manipulation. She is restless within the domestic sphere, and her stifled ambitions only result in unhappiness for herself and her husband.

Eliot's refusal to conform to happy endings demonstrates the fact that Middlemarch is not meant to be entertainment. She wants to deal with real life issues, not the fantasy world to which women writers were often confined. Her ambition was to create a portrait of the complexity of ordinary human life: quiet tragedies, petty character failings, small triumphs, and quiet moments of dignity. The complexity of her portrait of provincial society is reflected in the complexity of individual characters. The contradictions in the character of the individual person are evident in the shifting sypathies of the reader. One moment, we pity Causabon, the next we judge him critically.

Analysis

In addition to creating a thoroughgoing and rich portrait of the life of a small early 19th-century town, Eliot produced an essentially modern novel, with penetrating psychological insights and moralambiguity. Eliot also broke with convention by refusing to end the work with the inevitable happy ending, as women writers of romance fiction were then expected to do. Instead, she detailed the realities of marriage. While male critics castigated the bold and daring narrative as too gloomy for a “woman writer,” novelist Virginia Woolf called it “one of the few English novels written for grown-up people.”

Here we found short Romantic courtship lead to trouble, because both parties entertain unrealistic ideas of each other . They married without getting to know one another . Marriage based on compatibility work better. Moreover marriage in which woman have greater also work better, such as the marriage between Fred and mary. She tell him she will not Marry if he becomes a clergyman.

Two major life choices govern the narrative of Middlemarch. One is marriage and the other vocation.

We found both the woman remaining Faith full to her husband though they are not happy. Because of our society's mindset. Which don't allow woman to come out of this regid Traduction. On the other part Casaubon never trust her wife and thi may become the reason why Dorothea think of second marriage.  

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