Dorothea is bright, beautiful & rebellious & has married the wrong man. Lydgate is the ambitious new doctor in town & has married the wrong woman. Both of them long to make a positive difference in the world. But their stories do not proceed as expected & both they, & the other inhabitants of Middlemarch, must struggle to reconcile themselves to their fates & find their places in the world. ” Middlemarch” contains all of life: the rich & the poor, the conventional & the radical, literature & science, politics & romance. Eliot`s novel is a stunningly compelling insight into the human struggle to find contentment.