![]() Through this story, Eliot endorses unity between humans on behalf of each other, a theme which, while encouraging selflessness and camaraderie on a general basis, results in conflict between collective and individual identity and duty. ![]() What is the point of unity? Ironically, that point is unity itself. Daniel Deronda, a young gentleman, interacts with both of these women and their circumstances, interweaving the two seemingly unrelated plotlines into a single story. The other is the story of Mirah Lapidoth, a Jewess who runs away from a gambling-addicted father and an unsuccessful acting career to reunite with her long-lost mother and brother. ![]() One is the story of Gwendolen Harleth Grandcourt, a previously wealthy and spoiled young woman, who, after a change of fortune, marries a despicable, controlling man of wealth. George Eliot’s Victorian neo-classicist novel, Daniel Deronda, tells two stories simultaneously. Knopf, Inc.), 1964įeatures of this Edition: Introduction by A.S. ![]() Publication: New York: Everyman’s Library (Alfred A. I figured I would have to read it eventually, so I decided to read it for my SSR. Mom recommended it because it's considered the first novel dealing with Judaism. I read Daniel Deronda as a choice novel for English. ![]()
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