City of London

London and Wessex are important places that are including in this novel. London is very different than Wessex though; it has the city where there is a more diverse world. London is where Daniel is able to learn more about the jewish people and their religion.  In chapter nineteen we read, "of learned and accomplished Jews he took it for granted that they had dropped their religion, and wished to be merged in the people of their native lands. (ch.19)" Daniel then takes the time to learn more instead of being naiive about the world around him.

The corrosive nature of utopian ambition in Middlemarch

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Excerpt: He had gained an excellent practice, alternating, according to the season, between London and a Continental bathing-place; having written a treatise on Gout, a disease which has a good deal of wealth on its side. His skill was relied on by many paying patients, but he always regarded himself as a failure: he had not done what he once meant to do.

Question: To what extent is a utopian ambition portrayed to be a corrosive force within the world of Middlemarch

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