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The Great Political Fictions: Middlemarch (part 2)

Past Present Future

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Introduction

This chapter explores Reverend Fairbother as a contrast to Kazubon in George Eliot's Middlemarch, portraying Fairbother as a lively, kind clergyman with doubts about his profession yet excelling in his role. His unexpected inheritance of a vicarage symbolizes a well-lived Christian life, contrasting with Kazubon's portrayal of a stifled existence.

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