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Optative Regret in George Eliot's Middlemarch
… in realist fiction, there exists the concept of optative regret,which is when a character becomes aware of and yearns for alternate versions of him orherself that may have become realized if different choices had been made in his or herpast. George Eliot's Middlemarch constantly confronts the …