Eton College
Complying with the wishes of his guardian Sir Hugo Mallinger, Daniel Deronda invested himself in his education at an early age. He started his schooling career with a tutor named Mr. Fraser before moving onto Eton College, a place that would be his scholarly home from age 13 to age 18 until he was prepared to begin his stint at Cambridge for university-level schooling. While he eventually found himself quite stifled by the strict limits of English academia, Deronda was determined to pursue becoming educated when he was young because he wanted to please and imitate Mallinger.
The corrosive nature of utopian ambition in Middlemarch
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
The corrosive nature of uopian ambition in Middlemarch
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