Middlemarch novel6/1/2023 Dorothea is painfully aware of the ways that she doesn’t conform to the ideal of femininity, and she tries to reconcile her grand ambitions with her desire to better meet this ideal through her marriage at 18 to the 45-year-old Rev. Ultimately these plans do not transpire, in part due to Dorothea’s naivety, and in part due to the significant restrictions placed on women in the society in which she lives. Brooke’s estate and, later, planning a “colony” for workers. Uniquely strong-willed, passionate, and rebellious, Dorothea is a deeply religious woman “enamored of intensity and greatness.” She is also committed to social reform and channels her energies into designing cottages for the tenant farmers on her uncle Mr. Although in some ways Middlemarch does not center around a single character, Dorothea is the closest the novel gets to a protagonist.
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