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A review by kdotna
Middlemarch by George Eliot
4.0
damn i really do be loving my books about colonizer upper middle class english people’s drama!
but in all seriousness, MIDDLEMARCH was a fucking banger. it’s a very hefty read and took me over a week to get through, but i never stopped marveling at george eliot’s intelligence and wit (she’s literally hilarious like this is hands down the funniest victorian i’ve ever read), as well as the compassionate and nuanced ways in which she depicted her characters.
MIDDLEMARCH is also genuinely moving. yes, it really is technically just about english provincial life and the woes and romances of upper middle/middle class white people, so its ability to offer a universal study of what it’s like to be a human is irrefutably limited — but it does offer a careful study of what it means to aspire toward goodness. eliot is serious about morality without sermonizing; she’s able to achieve this via her narrator/authorial voice and the omniscience this grants her. by being so compassionate toward each of her characters (even the worst of them), eliot makes it clear that it’s impossible to be a human in a vacuum, and that we are who we are in relation to others.
MIDDLEMARCH is long but worth the read — beautiful, intelligent, funny, kind, all the good things! 5 stars to another classic about colonizers! loved it!
but in all seriousness, MIDDLEMARCH was a fucking banger. it’s a very hefty read and took me over a week to get through, but i never stopped marveling at george eliot’s intelligence and wit (she’s literally hilarious like this is hands down the funniest victorian i’ve ever read), as well as the compassionate and nuanced ways in which she depicted her characters.
MIDDLEMARCH is also genuinely moving. yes, it really is technically just about english provincial life and the woes and romances of upper middle/middle class white people, so its ability to offer a universal study of what it’s like to be a human is irrefutably limited — but it does offer a careful study of what it means to aspire toward goodness. eliot is serious about morality without sermonizing; she’s able to achieve this via her narrator/authorial voice and the omniscience this grants her. by being so compassionate toward each of her characters (even the worst of them), eliot makes it clear that it’s impossible to be a human in a vacuum, and that we are who we are in relation to others.
MIDDLEMARCH is long but worth the read — beautiful, intelligent, funny, kind, all the good things! 5 stars to another classic about colonizers! loved it!