| Acknowledgements | 第1-5页 |
| Abstract | 第5-7页 |
| 中文摘要 | 第7-10页 |
| Introduction | 第10-12页 |
| Chapter 1 George Eliot’s View on Society | 第12-15页 |
| ·Positive Aspect of Society | 第13-14页 |
| ·Negative Aspect of Society | 第14页 |
| ·The Central Tensions between the Two Aspects of Society | 第14-15页 |
| Chapter 2 Society as Frustration for Lydgate | 第15-37页 |
| ·Frustration by Middlemarch’s State of Medicine | 第15-21页 |
| ·Frustration by Middlemarch’s Petty Politics | 第21-27页 |
| ·Frustration by the Failure of Lydgate’s Marriage | 第27-37页 |
| Chapter 3 Society as Frustration for Dorothea | 第37-45页 |
| ·Women’s Social Status in the Victorian Period | 第37-38页 |
| ·Frustration by the Failure of Dorothea’s Marriage | 第38-45页 |
| Chapter 4 Society as Fulfillment for Dorothea | 第45-49页 |
| ·Dorothea’s Help to Lydgate | 第45-46页 |
| ·Dorothea’s Influence on Ladislaw | 第46-49页 |
| Chapter 5 Conclusion | 第49-51页 |
| Works Cited | 第51-52页 |
