George Eliot: For All
Her Relevance Today
George Eliot’s writings deal with a wide range of human emotions which were felt in the 19th century in just the way they are today, and presumably always will be. Feelings of love and enmity, envy and jealousy, pride, ambition, selfishness and many other facets of human existence are expressed throughout her novels and poetry, giving reality to her characters in a most illuminating way.
In demonstrating these human elements however, she probes a little deeper and searches for the reasons behind them. In this way she brings a sympathetic touch to her delineation of character and so leads her readers to an understanding of humanity in all its frailty.
This compassion for humanity runs as a thread throughout all her writings and is judged to be one of the principal reasons for her greatness as a writer of realistic stories.
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| "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." George Eliot
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