tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2168521040936634641.post494347185573892753..comments2023-10-20T17:05:47.347+02:00Comments on Lady of the Manor: Middlemarch watch-along: episode 6Birdiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09240886179336298463noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2168521040936634641.post-59166343191109375322014-06-27T11:19:24.440+02:002014-06-27T11:19:24.440+02:00You're right, after this rewatch, I also want ...You're right, after this rewatch, I also want to reread the book and look better at Dorothea and Ladislaw. Actually, look better at everyone, just refresh my memory about how George Eliot originally wrote them!Birdiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09240886179336298463noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2168521040936634641.post-1107915843827444652014-06-25T16:06:29.403+02:002014-06-25T16:06:29.403+02:00Maybe I should say that Ladislaw has the potential...Maybe I should say that Ladislaw has the potential to be sweet. I think during his earlier encounters with Dorothea, he's very kind and, yes, sweet. However, he also has a very abrasive way of putting things -- a defense mechanism, I think, because he's had to fight for everything he's ever gotten in life. And now this person he loves, the future he could have with her, everything he could ever need or want -- they're being denied him from beyond the grave by an antagonist he thought he had escaped at last. It would take a much better man than Ladislaw to not be turned bitter by that. Honestly, the whole Dorothea-and-Ladislaw plot is what is making me definitely want to read this book. I want to see what they're both like in the original!<br /><br />And Fred is definitely a sweet, nice guy. Like how he rushed in to defend Mr. Garth's assistant and the surveyors! He just lacks stick-to-it-ive-ness right now, but maybe now that he has a definite aim in mind, he'll improve in that regard too. After all, it's not his fault he had indulgent parents who basically raised him to be an idle wastrel. Already he seems to have improved greatly from having a job to focus on!Hamlette (Rachel)https://www.blogger.com/profile/11961916847426233995noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2168521040936634641.post-47313513799003476512014-06-25T12:26:32.880+02:002014-06-25T12:26:32.880+02:00You raise some good points; I should watch both th...You raise some good points; I should watch both the scenes with Dorothea and Ladislaw and with Rosie and Ladislaw again to see if I agree with you.<br /><br />Sigh, I still don't think Ladislaw is sweet, though I've tried to look at him with your view in mind. I do think Fred is sweet though, what does this say about me, I wonder?Birdiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09240886179336298463noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2168521040936634641.post-48586912603101676772014-06-25T02:04:48.268+02:002014-06-25T02:04:48.268+02:00My episode 5 ended with Lydgate and Rosie's fi...My episode 5 ended with Lydgate and Rosie's fight and her saying she hates his research and so on. What rotten fools they both are! I want to give them both a good tongue-lashing.<br /><br />I think Fred could perhaps be an acceptable farmer or shopkeeper, but he mostly just needs to marry Mary and then do whatever she tells him to do. He seems fine at following instructions, but very heedless otherwise.<br /><br />And I think Rosie suspected Ladislaw didn't know about the Casaubon will, and told him on purpose. She's rather meddlesome, and didn't seem to be truly surprised when he said he didn't know.<br /><br />But I don't know if Ladislaw was exactly angry at Dorothea. More just at the world and all its injustice. Except he was very offended that she thought he could ever forget her. If he's angry with her at all, it's for marrying Casaubon in the first place, which is ridiculous, but he's not always the most logical man, is he?<br /><br />All in all, I don't see how this can all possibly get wrapped up in one more episode!Hamlette (Rachel)https://www.blogger.com/profile/11961916847426233995noreply@blogger.com