Felix Holt: The RadicalWhen the young nobleman Harold Transome returns to England from the colonies with a self-made fortune, he scandalizes the town of Treby Magna with his decision to stand for Parliament as a Radical. But after the idealistic Felix Holt also returns to the town, the difference between Harold's opportunistic values and Holt's profound beliefs becomes apparent. Forthright, brusque and driven by a firm desire to educate the working-class, Felix is at first viewed with suspicion by many, including the elegant but vain Esther Lyon, the daughter of the local clergyman. As she discovers, however, his blunt words conceal both passion and deep integrity. Soon the romantic and over-refined Esther finds herself overwhelmed by a heart-wrenching decision: whether to choose the wealthy Transome as a husband, or the impoverished but honest Felix Holt. |
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... truth you can' is Felix's adopted creed and his own adherence to truth is manifest in both individual and social terms, as in his refusal to 'turn the best hopes of men into by-words for cant and dishonesty'. The same correlations ...
... truth you can' is Felix's adopted creed and his own adherence to truth is manifest in both individual and social terms, as in his refusal to 'turn the best hopes of men into by-words for cant and dishonesty'. The same correlations ...
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... truths with which he too is faced,18 Eliot's treatment of Felix himself nevertheless remains problematic, even where she attempts to draw attention to his faults: The weak point to which Felix referred was his liability to be carried ...
... truths with which he too is faced,18 Eliot's treatment of Felix himself nevertheless remains problematic, even where she attempts to draw attention to his faults: The weak point to which Felix referred was his liability to be carried ...
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... truth: 'Dear me,' says Esther, 'I thought he was something higher than that.' Longer acquaintance nevertheless brings not consolidation of this point of view but instead a fundamental reorientation within Esther's evaluative schema ...
... truth: 'Dear me,' says Esther, 'I thought he was something higher than that.' Longer acquaintance nevertheless brings not consolidation of this point of view but instead a fundamental reorientation within Esther's evaluative schema ...
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... truth so dicult,' wrote Eliot in Adam Bede,23 and certainly images of temptation surround the easy life which uncritical love might offer as opposed to the 'dicult blessedness' of life with Felix. Though notions of right and wrong may ...
... truth so dicult,' wrote Eliot in Adam Bede,23 and certainly images of temptation surround the easy life which uncritical love might offer as opposed to the 'dicult blessedness' of life with Felix. Though notions of right and wrong may ...
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... truth. If she had seen him in a crowd, she might have looked at him without recognition – not, however, without startled wonder; for though the likeness to herself was no longer striking, the years had overlaid it with another likeness ...
... truth. If she had seen him in a crowd, she might have looked at him without recognition – not, however, without startled wonder; for though the likeness to herself was no longer striking, the years had overlaid it with another likeness ...
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