Middlemarch Lover Logging On. I don't know if I'd recommend-recommend it but if you like a good Victorian novel, then yes go for it. I really identify with Dorothea, the protagonist, in all her flaws and stubbornness and "I'm gonna live for higher purposes and a meaningful life" and making herself miserable by doing it--and then figuring out what she does want in life. Also, I appreciate the last lines because they counter the message that it's up to us to be the one person to change the world instead of one of many people changing the world (although the lines/concept could also be used to individualize small acts and ignore big picture):
"But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs."
I love a good "monster mash" reference
Middlemarch Lover Logging On. I don't know if I'd recommend-recommend it but if you like a good Victorian novel, then yes go for it. I really identify with Dorothea, the protagonist, in all her flaws and stubbornness and "I'm gonna live for higher purposes and a meaningful life" and making herself miserable by doing it--and then figuring out what she does want in life. Also, I appreciate the last lines because they counter the message that it's up to us to be the one person to change the world instead of one of many people changing the world (although the lines/concept could also be used to individualize small acts and ignore big picture):
"But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs."