In middlemarch dorothea was attracted to edward casaubon because?

Edward Casaubon, fictional character, one of the main figures in George Eliot’s masterpiece Middlemarch (1871–72). Casaubon is a pompous and ineffectual middle-aged scholar who marries the heroine, Dorothea Brooke, because he needs an assistant for his work. His “masterwork,” Key to All Mythologies, is stalled and remains unfinished at his death. 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.

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7 - to develop an asian ally

11- the red scare

14   the power of military -industrial complex

17 - the economy grew quickly

24 - the separation of church and state was not important