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Article: Eliot's MiddleMarch.(George Eliot)(Critical Essay)
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- The Explicator
- Article date:
- September 22, 2003
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In George Eliot's Middlemarch (1871-72), a critical moment comes to Dr. Lydgate when it is rumored that he received money as a bribe from Bulstrode to help him to be rid of Raffles. Despite his innocence, the young doctor chooses to remain silent on this scandalous gossip rather than tell the truth in an attempt to dispel the rumor. He says nothing about it even to his wife, Rosamond. At the same time, however, he tells Dorothea what happened. Confiding in Dorothea proves to be a good move, for she believes what he says and understands "the difficulty there is in your vindicating yourself" (821). Implicit in that difficulty is his fear of irrevocable involvement in a ...
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