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In the novel Middlemarch English writer George Eliot describes the book’s heroine, newlywed Dorothea Brooke, weeping with unhappiness at her marriage. Eliot suggests that although such unhappiness is common in the world, none of us can fully share in the misery of another person, or we would be overwhelmed by the experience. The affectionate but unsentimental scrutiny to which Eliot subjects the actions and motives of her characters is one of the hallmarks of her work.
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