![]() ![]() Five choice examples:įor Macbeth’s rhetoric about the impossibility of being many opposite things in the same moment, referred to the clumsy necessities of action and not to the subtler possibilities of feeling. For this reader, Eliot’s beautiful expression and psychological insight overshadow the plot itself. ![]() Why this is T he BEST: Although this work appeals to Jews as a proto-Zionist work, preceding Herzl and Pinsker, and a nineteenth-century English woman’s support for a Jewish state is certainly remarkable, that is not the best reason to read the novel. Deronda meets a Jew named Mordecai who dreams of Jews returning to their homeland in Palestine, which becomes a solution for the English anti-Semitism that the book portrays. Its two central protagonists, Daniel Deronda and Gwendolen Harleth , both face difficult dec isions touching on issues of identity, economics, family, ethics, and character. Summary: Eliot’s classic novel, set in Victorian England, focuses on social commentary and moral development. ![]()
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