A character in Middlemarch
Middlemarch by Eliot, George
A cold, pedantic elderly clergyman and scholar consumed by his never-finished 'Key to all Mythologies,' whose marriage to Dorothea proves loveless and whose jealousy of Will Ladislaw persists past his death through a spiteful will.
Also known as: Mr. Casaubon
Inside the story
Mr. Casaubon is an elderly clergyman and scholar devoted to his unfinished Key to All Mythologies. Cold and pedantic, he seeks to marry Dorothea Brooke, whose idealistic respect for his learning draws her toward him.
An aging, sallow, sickly-looking man with a pale complexion marred by white moles and blinking eyes, thin gray-besprinkled hair, a stooping, spare frame lacking muscular curve, and a dry, deliberate manner.
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