A study of characterisation in the novels of George Eliot

Tito shows us them faced 7rith
or morz .. l choic8s, and there is very
little offered of the texture of their daily lives, apart from SUGh
crucial moments~
I maintain, therefor-e, that these early novels show
the characters confronting "explicit mO~'al
choices u but do not
adequately the texture of their lives i:1 a "small pi::;cemeall!
we.;! and
this is itself mainly due to th~J lineae set method of charc.cterisation
I he,lre been describing.
The laws of associat'l.on, the
sequence of c;;::,1.1se and effec-i;
vide a very mechanistic mouel for the C " " charact er,; the
later model of interaction a moX" flexible bl:L:;e for
depicting chare,cter growth and change ..
about the !!revolution in 3u:copean tnind in te:'ms of
static rnechar1i;3ID and the redirection or the rninc. tc
of uynamic orgcmicism. It 58 I have sho,'1l:".
her cnarnow
discuse hO'w she :t"-3(drectn her mind
the int 0 the f!"arr~e-