tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7737191212416083279.post8500297816268803522..comments2012-04-16T10:44:20.189-07:00Comments on Boland ENGL 3100: Middlemarch Ch. 1-5 by George EliotKathrynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13593241071215073819noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7737191212416083279.post-43385861503818794682012-01-31T18:41:16.794-08:002012-01-31T18:41:16.794-08:00The class actually laughed today when Casaubon and...The class actually laughed today when Casaubon and Dorothea were in Rome (in the film) and he said something about gender relations, and she turned and walked away from him. Sex is a problem in an idealistic Puritan-ish woman's world!--Kathryn PRKathrynhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13593241071215073819noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7737191212416083279.post-63724050027520060382012-01-25T09:27:20.857-08:002012-01-25T09:27:20.857-08:00I am reminded of Van's discussion of "exp...I am reminded of Van's discussion of "expectations of marriage" from Herland and how he was saying that a woman usually has an idea of what marriage will be like and then finding out the reality of it. Dorothea has great expectations of her marriage to Casaubon, but the narrator's voice lends me to believe that it is not going to be as great as Dorothea imagines. There are several times when we are reading the inner thoughts of Dorothea, and the narrator makes a comment of how she did not know "then" that she was wrong. It gives a certain foreshadowing of doom, or at least unhappiness.Kathrynhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13593241071215073819noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7737191212416083279.post-74851330610564517942012-01-24T05:16:28.647-08:002012-01-24T05:16:28.647-08:00What do you think of the inward focus of the narra...What do you think of the inward focus of the narrator? Eliot uses "free indirect" style to give us Dorothea's perspective on the world. Can you comment on Dorothea's naive view of Casaubon as it is conveyed through the narrator's voice? See esp. p. 25 and 33.Kathrynhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13593241071215073819noreply@blogger.com