A study of characterisation in the novels of George Eliot

Cl.iv:i.uual self, the I, but the other inclid_c!.m.:L to ,;hOIl 'Ne relate, the
You, of' tho I-You statement. Vlithout th::'3 You vIe would. have no sense of
• It is here that Feue:cbach and George Eliot ~ 'Nhile to
promulgat e an indi viduali s1:5:0 ethic, are yet vor:l airf' erent from
'TI.btzsche with his passionate individualism and his scorrL for vihet he
:'118u IIhercl mentality. If 13 He stands t in tion to
oriented ethic'll systems. 'ine section on n.s"s the
on that often occurs in ethical
l",;tv:een selfishness
and SlTI, D.nd the 0hat surrour:ds the very 0~:,(1 !Iinc.u vlckeIi s;:n. "
ticr ..
to 8.1truisffi:z in
ch~
Eliot, Ua:ccol, Buber and athol'S takes t:}e form of ::i
the indi v1.duc~,·\i ty of other people. It r31ate,' to the
of maintainine;
an I-You relation:lhip 'iii th otll8r~, not an I,,1t relationship ..
The other factor importrmt in the of ~E:;:rGach and
ard detectab:::_~: as well in George Eliot, ~s th.at rLl.o.ral
becomes in effect a (livinc imperativo,
race is sacred and to be cherisheu. ThE L'.ttributes
God are meD
less u.'1les~' they are t 0 ma:nl:in ~ ;
ice, and are ., l hur.18n attr them t God. is
o reduce max: t s stat m'e !i o nullif'y fc;i ve power r,ud dominaTlce
over s minds t () an ic1ea. Fe' :;:efut ed the
o~ ~::o him atheisrn diel not der (._ lucl\: o:f DclieI~ in G~o~~ but
of benevol;; :10e ,
on, a.nd therefore, n
It 2c, yot
:Uf'ficult to soe how
Inlot stec
'.,hero she found,
cou.ld tl.1rn
Cl.n. I'c:.: ::;11