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Rosamond And Lydgate Character Analysis

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Rosamond is a delightful and feminine presence that immediately delights the doctor arriving in town. Embodying all the values of the Victorian woman, she contends with Dorothea in all respects. Eliot criticizes her quite harshly throughout the novel, highlighting her defects and less beautiful parts through the situations in which she is exposed, but also through the choices she makes consciously. She relinquishes her origins, wants something more from her life, and longs for belonging to a social class more important than the middle class she is part of. He does not know the value of money, although he aspires to a financial status through which she can satisfy his needs and the whims of a spoiled young woman. The connection between Rosamond and Lydgate seems to be just a relationship without emotion and love; she sees Lydgate as a good perspective. We can see that in the relationship of the two, described by Eliot, predominates elements of Darwinist theory, because both are young, beautiful, from good families. What is attractive to Rosamond are good manners and physical beauty, but her personality is unpleasant and not appealing. Lydgate is blinded by these qualities and feels in love with what is on the surface without realizing that these abilities are simply learned and practiced over time.
Rosamond 's portrait is a critique of feminine values demanded by Victorian society, with which Eliot disagrees. Although it embodies almost all the qualities required for a

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