Answer:Casaubon is a pompous and ineffectual middle-aged scholar who marries the heroine, Dorothea Brooke, because he needs an assistant for his work. ... Eliot contrasts Casaubon with his young, idealistic cousin, Will Ladislaw, who is in love with Dorothea and whom she eventually marries after Casaubon's death.
Explanation:
Casaubon is a pompous and ineffectual middle-aged scholar who marries the heroine, Dorothea Brooke, because he needs an assistant for his work. ... Eliot contrasts Casaubon with his young, idealistic cousin, Will Ladislaw, who is in love with Dorothea and whom she eventually marries after Casaubon's death.
