You’ve got me rushing to read Commitment along with. I agree that making plans is an important Dorothea activity but is not this part of a belief in human perfectibility and the need to realize belief in action. Or “conduct,” may be a better word. Eliot mentions in passing an “infant school which she had set going in the village,” so she…
You’ve got me rushing to read Commitment along with. I agree that making plans is an important Dorothea activity but is not this part of a belief in human perfectibility and the need to realize belief in action. Or “conduct,” may be a better word. Eliot mentions in passing an “infant school which she had set going in the village,” so she sees herself as an educator as well, and in her relations to others there is an impatient prodding to make them do and be better.
This is so wise. In that respect she is different from Commitment's Walter. He wants to help out, relieve pain, create security. One suspects that simple well-being is less than what Dorothea wants from her villagers.
You’ve got me rushing to read Commitment along with. I agree that making plans is an important Dorothea activity but is not this part of a belief in human perfectibility and the need to realize belief in action. Or “conduct,” may be a better word. Eliot mentions in passing an “infant school which she had set going in the village,” so she sees herself as an educator as well, and in her relations to others there is an impatient prodding to make them do and be better.
This is so wise. In that respect she is different from Commitment's Walter. He wants to help out, relieve pain, create security. One suspects that simple well-being is less than what Dorothea wants from her villagers.