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The Theme of Evil

Early in the novel, Gwendolen is badly frightened by a specter of death, but she does not recognize evil when it enters the novel through the figure of Henleigh Mallinger Grandcourt.

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Dr. Ruth Wisse
Dr. Ruth R. Wisse is professor emerita of Yiddish and comparative literatures at Harvard and a distinguished senior fellow at Tikvah. Her memoir Free as a Jew: a Personal Memoir of National Self-Liberation, chapters of which appeared in Mosaic in somewhat different form, is out from Wicked Son…

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The Theme of Evil

Taught By

Dr. Ruth Wisse

1 of 8 The Theme of Beauty and Goodness

2 of 8 The Character and Education of Gwendolen Harleth

3 of 8 “Alien Invaders”: Jewish Figures in Deronda’s Britain

4 of 8 The Theme of Evil

5 of 8 The Character and Education of Daniel Deronda

6 of 8 Jewish Nationalism

7 of 8 How Fiction Differs from Philosophy

8 of 8 The Political Vision of Daniel Deronda: Separateness with Communication

1 of 8 The Theme of Beauty and Goodness

2 of 8 The Character and Education of Gwendolen Harleth

3 of 8 “Alien Invaders”: Jewish Figures in Deronda’s Britain

4 of 8 The Theme of Evil

5 of 8 The Character and Education of Daniel Deronda

6 of 8 Jewish Nationalism

7 of 8 How Fiction Differs from Philosophy

8 of 8 The Political Vision of Daniel Deronda: Separateness with Communication

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