![]() ![]() It’s intimidating to read and write about Middlemarch, the story in which Casaubon appears. It’s an undertaking beyond his abilities. Entombed in his dusty library, Casaubon attempts to reinvent the spiritual wheel. ![]() Besides, as his cousin Will Ladislaw points out, most of the theological research in Casaubon’s field is written in German - a language Casaubon doesn’t understand. As the years tick by, the mythologies Casaubon studies prove as boundless as the truth he thinks they will illuminate.Ĭasaubon’s personal failings also come into the mix: He lacks the requisite imagination and passion for the study of myths. This sum of all mythology, he believes, will be a universal revelation. His theological research, Key to All Mythologies, aims to catalog the world’s legends. In Middlemarch, Reverend Edward Casaubon is working on a grand theory. ![]()
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