He doesn't change much for the entire time he's around. Grandcourt, was portrayed with an entertaining sneer and a determined controlling nature by the narrator of this audiobook. Gwendolen went from being someone deserving scorn for her self-centeredness to someone pitiable, while Deronda starts out as sturdily decent and ends up being just as decent, only with a religious identification. The author did succeed in establishing a set of emotions for me with each of the characters in this story and even character arcs with the two protagonists. It is good to pick up a book from the past now and then and see what it takes to make it your own. The novel's exploration of sexuality, guilt, and the will to power anticipates later developments in fiction, and its linking of the personal and the political in a context of social and economic crisis gives it special relevance to the dominant issues of the 21st century. George Eliot's powerful novel is set in a Britain whose ruling class is decadent and materialistic, its power likely to be threatened by a politically emergent Germany. Damaged by their pasts and alienated from the society around them, they must both discover the values that will give their lives meaning. Deronda is searching for a vocation, and in embracing the Jewish cause he finds one that is both visionary and life changing. Beautiful, neurotic, and self-centered, Gwendolen is trapped in an increasingly destructive relationship, and only her chance encounter with the idealistic Deronda seems to offer the hope of a brighter future. Gwendolen Harleth gambles her happiness when she marries a sadistic aristocrat for his money.
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