He slaves away on a project called "The Key to All Mythologies," a work that is supposed to integrate his life's learning. Edward Casaubonĭorothea's middle-aged husband, a crusty old scholar with an inability to feel emotion or love. Brooke means well, however, and has few qualms about flying in the face of Middlemarch conventions and politics, if need be. He is a strong-willed man, with definite, though outdated, ideas about what women should and should not do. Brookeĭorothea and Celia's guardian and uncle, brother to their deceased father. She marries the kind and sensitive Sir James Chettam, a much better match, and made for better reasons, than her sister's union.
Although she makes no challenges to convention, Celia is sensible, and very perceptive when it comes to people and the Middlemarch world around her. Celia Brookeĭorothea's younger sister, the more calm and ordinary of the two. Dorothea, although she is fairly well-educated, is naïve about the outside world when her marriage disappoints her, she is forced to learn that she cannot make a life through other people, and that she must fulfill her purpose in life through her own effort. Casaubon, who cannot satisfy her emotionally or mentally. Dorothea is an excessively religious, pious girlto the extent that she withdraws from the activities she likes most, and convinces herself to marry a man, Mr.
Oldest of two daughters, and raised by her bachelor uncle, Mr.
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