Dorothea as a main Character

Introduction:
If we study the novel Middlemarch Austen than we came to know that there are such  a questions which arises  while studying.
What is in the novel ‘Middlemarch’?
Is literature reflects some realities?
What are the realities in the novel?
How Dorothea is real character?
Are there some characters like her in other works?
Basic information about the novel
Middlemarch is the novel written by George Eliot. The novel is set in the fictitious Midlands town of Middlemarch.  It is written as a third person narrative. There are three or four plots like life of Dorothea, the career of Tertius Lydgate, the courtship of Mary Gerth by Fred Vincy and the disgrace of Bulstrode. But the main plot is regarding Dorothea Brooke that how her life going on in the novel? There are some major characters in the novel as under,
Dorothea
Tertius Lydgate
Rosamond Vincy
Edward Casaubon
Arthur Brook, etc.
Some significant themes of the novel are status of women, the nature of marriage, idealism, self interest, religion, hypocrisy, political reform, and education. We can find comical elements but it is a work of realism.
Literature-Reality:
Generally we can say that ‘literature is reflection of our life’. And we can see something true in literature. In every literature we can find something which we can say it is real. Sometimes character represents the reality like in our Ramayana, character like Tom in the novel ‘Tom Jones’. In the drama of ‘Hayvadana’ by Karnad, in this work story is like complicated but the portrayal of two main characters is reflect reality. One has powerful mind and another has power of body and in our real life also we can see them. So now let’s know the realities of the novel
Realistic Novel
In the novel there are many characters that are not complete. They have some positive points and some negatives. And as know that everyone has his/her weak points so everyone is incomplete. We can see variety of characters in this novel like Dorothea, Casaubon, Lydgate, etc. And these types of characters we can see in real life also. Generally in all our Hollywood movies we can see the main character is perfect he has all the things like brain, beauty, body power, helpful, kind, etc. So we can say that those all things are unreal. Because in reality we can’t see such character who has all the good qualities.
Character of Dorothea:
Dorothea is a kind hearted and honest woman. She is an exceptional woman. She is smart, pious, beautiful and the governing principle of her character is her desire to have the needy .and we can see it in her interest in redesigning the cottages of local farmers. She thinks Casaubon is a great intellectual but it not so. After marriage, she quickly discovers that he is not passionate enough to make her happy. She also learns that she is not as submissive and sacrificing as she had previously thought. Then, he died because of his age and Dorothea refuses to finish the work of her husband and so once again she come back to her life as earlier like before marriage.     She draws plans for comfortable cottages to replace the ramshackle buildings on large estates. She helps Lydgete when he suffers for his connection with Bulstrode. She falls in love with Casaubon’s young cousin, will ladislaw. She defines Casaubon’s machinations and marries will even though it means losing her inheritance as Casaubon’s widow. So, we can say that she choose good person not money to be happy in her life. And because of this decision we can say that she take this step after thinking. Now, let’s we define that how she is real character? As under,
 

       Dorothea as a real character:
    
Dorothea is a main  character in the novel. She was helpful person and she wanted to help Casaubon because of this reason she married with him.But there is vast difference between their age and that’s why their life becomes unhappy. He not givehis attention towardsDorothea. Dorothea is an intelligent and beautiful girl shecan easily get good life partner but she choose Casaubon. And because of this step she has to suffer in her life. Generally we can se that very human being is incomplete. And in our real society also wecan find some examples like Gandhiji. He is great person it not mean that he hass not did any mistake in his life. He also stole gold from his brother’s bracelet and also smokes when he was child. So there are many mistakes doneby him. And in this novel also Dorothea does some mistake and soshe is realcharacter.
Generally, our mind constructed to watch ideal hero or heroine whether it is movie or novel. Because in our bollywood hero and heroine are always ideal and perfect one like role of Ajay Devgan in the movie ‘Singham’. And because of these kind of movies our mind is constructed that hero is always ideal, honest, kind- hearted, etc. He never does any mistake in his life. But in literature there are many characters that represent the reality of life like Tom in the novel ‘Tom Jones’. By heart he is kind but he has affairs with many women like Sophia Westren, Molly, etc. So according to our society it is not good thing but as individual he may right.
In this novel Dorothea is a real character because she is not complete. And it’s natural for everybody to do any mistake in life. And there is one Gujrati proverb as under,
“Manas matra, Bhulne patra”
So, from this proverb also we can say that everyone did at list one mistake during his/her life. As same Dorothea also committed mistake by marring with old Casaubon. We compare age of their both so its mistake of Dorothea. So, after all we can say that character like Dorothea is everywhere.
Conclusion:
She is real character that’s right but sowhat? Now here I wants to say that so what? Everybody has incomplete so there is no need to blame anyone for anything. So rather than blaming to another we have to accept ourmistakes. And in our real life there are some wars like war between two nations, war between two brothers, war between two persons,etc. Because some mistake done by someone but point is that if we know that no one is complete. So we can accept mistake of others and try to remove it but then it nottransfer in war.Everybody is living life and enjoyable life, if we forgetthe mistakes of others and try to accept mistak of ours. There is one another Hindi proverb as under,
“Rat gai so rat gai, bit gai so bat gai”
Fromthisproverb we can understand that don’t remember the mistakes ofothers try to forget it. And if we are ready to accept the mistake ofothers then surely somebody is ready to accept ours. Then our relations are developing beautifully if we are behaving like it. So after all Iwants to say last thing that ‘accept any person with his/her mistake and try to remove those mistakes with understanding.