Middlemarch casaubon7/7/2023 ![]() Casaubon suffers from ill health and dies only a few years after marrying Dorothea. ![]() Casaubon’s cousin Will Ladislaw also reveals that because Casaubon doesn’t read German, he has not been able to keep abreast of the latest developments in theological scholarship and that his project will not be taken seriously (if it is ever published at all). He praises patience and diligent work as the keys to success, but over the course of the novel it becomes clear that he is paralyzed by insecurity and that the project will likely never be finished. Casaubon has spent several decades of his life on a work of theological scholarship called The Key to All Mythologies. He is also described as ugly and “dry ” when Sir James Chettam hears that Dorothea is engaged to him, he laments that Casaubon is “no better than a mummy.” His house, Lowick Manor, is described as correspondingly dark and dreary. He is wealthy and high-ranking, but socially awkward and dull. Edward Casaubon is a 45-year-old bachelor. When we are first introduced to him, Rev. ![]()
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