A study of characterisation in the novels of George Eliot

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FROM PRECEPTS TO PEOPLE: A STUDY OF
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letters. Because she believes in th
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CONTENTS. Chapter I INTRODUCTION
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2. thought to result from the frequ
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4. assume a strong possibility that
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6. Eliot wanted, even needed, to be
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8. ible laws--and work towards the
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10. our twentieth~entur.Y preoccupa
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12. realistic an appreciation of th
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Grandcourt. Deronda. refrains from
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16. is coni'used with the conceptio
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18. " , that individual defines him
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20. The intricacies of human nature
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22. Let us now examine the novels t
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24. system, what we feel and adjust
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26. "spots of commonness. It 76 So
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28. discussion of Lydgate in chapte
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30. "It would really have been a ma
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32. and his failure to appreciate t
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34. moral regeneration; remorse as
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36. recognise that their only safeg
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Psychological Assumptions, A knowle
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Psychological Determinism. lIConstr
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"this alone which can give value to
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view, that he continued. to occupy
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eX3.mine the evolutionc:cry if.: 2:
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48. seeing, or that he is looking i
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50 .. It is this very rigiCiity of
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'Jtions, further "vi t:'
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acceptance of the 'al determini -;m
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Tito shows us them faced 7rith or m
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Ylhile:re exaEline the psychologica
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60. introduced into the novel and d
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62. biologists like Darwin and Lewe
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64. development of the Earth, in th
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66. formed him and which he b helpi
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68 .. that in the onward tendency o
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~lirectinG her irony at just the so
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72 .. mid-nineteenth century in ord
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74. ~ Inb orn Half.: 5!!.. Memory .
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76. nervous and glandular struoture
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78. by new findine:s in cornparati
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80. out the novels this emphasis on
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82. of heredity, especially ir. the
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lIabandoned the historical universa
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86. Gwendolen we may feel that desc
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88 ... Eliot translates particular
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90. offers various ways in which th
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92. in the vast universe of conscio
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94. It is extremely doubtful whethe
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96. acknowledged, "in itself, it is
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98. main component of this feeling
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100. utility organised and consolid
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102. over generations until it almo
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104-. mention. He shares with Georg
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106. took over the role of reason a
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108. morality must not be allowed t
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110 .. The third, and for the prese
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112. truth, that moral judgements m
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114. orthodox step, discard her for
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116. between two opposing ethical v
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118. If facts about the moral world
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120. longer see other people as ext
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122. ly called moral intuitions. Th
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124. nance which, in her mind, rele
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126. face of a law which is not una
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128. see very little of her, has sh
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1.30. has sacred virtue.!! 19 She f
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132. I have been labouring the poin
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134. and is therefore related to th
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136. the simplicity and clearness o
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138. herself is somewhat ambivalent
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;ylaints which'ange many clitics on
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142. She accepts in these words a C
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1411-. ological novel concealed wit
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146. the children--which she would
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that come vlith the revelation of h
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150. original sin and the need for
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152. way with Comte t s dogmatic as
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154. The Incalculable Effect. The p
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156. those of mentor/pupil. They Sh
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158. I i The important healing qual
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160. In 1854, George Eliot translat
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creatures, love and tolerance. Simi
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spirit of Feuerbach than his politi
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-166 .. does not totally avoid all
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168. construct for moral grovnh. It
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170. that base line and the height
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172. home a familiar unmistakable d
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174. strengths. Gwendolen has not c
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176. psychological terms; there is
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178. vanity and her longing for soc
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180. tllat Casa;.1bon seeks to impo
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ignore the fact that we have only t
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184. than work and money. The very
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186. to do this; they ·willingly e
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188. of more recent psychological t
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190. to alter perspeoti ve on her c
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192. conceit of means whereby seque
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1 thought processes as, f"ee:Ling s
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196. and so on, all establish the i
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198. suoh a description. The first
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aooept the Positivistio faith in ir
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202. it. Let us now oonsider in gre
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It is Do; )t;hea t s engagement to
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":hanging wit'"; the sElcrElt, a 'o
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208. he did not look mood;y; if he
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\'he crusty, ;t:"ic painter, nero d
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212. he is more inclined tovmrds li
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214. Preoepts ~ People. If we plot
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216. the ''heredit~ entailed Nemesi
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218. . II 10 an d agal.n. When she
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220. be stripped S!!. self-seekinea
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222. do not "choose, ~ in Mill t S
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spones. Psychoanalytic critics have
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226. remonstrate further nor does s
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228. ness will demonstrate a breadt
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230. don Silva and accepts her gyps
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stinctive rescue of Mirah and the c
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234. member the derivation of the w
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236. ainly they become yet another
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238. to the time when he finds his
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mente George Eliot may write of "ho
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traces of Puritanism, and, as Ian W
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Gwendolen's rejection of the stabil
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246. for upper middle class society
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248. tracting us while the real eve
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250. are tlanguish to ~hei~ own nob
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2.52. Romola, Dorothea Brooke and D
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254. stantly to the nov~ls and to t
Page 261 and 262: 256. 1°George Levine, "Determinism
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Page 267 and 268: 262. Notes: ££. 29-35 91 George E
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