A study of characterisation in the novels of George Eliot

e exactly certain whether the communi
is there to provide a meUium
ago.inst which or within which e :rdalises , or whetheL' the
story of
e is to be seen as one demonstrating ;:1.8 pect s of C VL: .. illkU'"
inter-relationships. Certainly the tech:,lique George 31iot uses in
I,Iiddlemarch is not an
new dep['2'ture; it obv:Lously offers an extension
of tb() tech..."'1ique she uses in 22."~
~ ~ thE? F].oss, where
are shovm in part a::o a response to her unaccepting
and unacceptable envirOIlment. St Ogg' s ~J.vl arl'ay of (~~unts
and uncles become, as it were, a force , :e is a di:t'f8,'Emce between a wellrealised
medium which provides a backgroi),nd.
. rhich a charact eX'
test and a medium shovm to exert grei.3.t on. that so
that we are constantly aware of the process of' inter\. ;)tion betweeL the
two .. 'rtLere is a difference of perspeoti'l6; in ~hE;
ea.ly novels we trace
the sYBtematic moral deterioration of L:';:;hur' or Titc 'lnd
their
, their moral and clecisi reive
comililli~ties, and although we see the raC:L .icaticns of these
actions, moral choices and decisions,
focus is 0.:. the characte:::'3 and
the chronologically pl"'esented ae;count This a
linear development, what Horse
effeot construct;" the shift of' t£"D.t ooc~. '8 when we h.::;i,,; our
13ttention dravm to
, .j-'
POSlvl ve
-line caus;;=;-
char-
&'toter and the society in v;hich he lives ::n s.n '.vith the nccessar'J
interaction bet~'[een an orgD,nism anc. itS··~8~j .. U.':, in Peckhar ~
In the same wa;/, the
construct" H