Art Informs Narrative in Eliot’s Middlemarch. The essay is to be 8 pages with three to five sources, with in-text citations and a reference page. It is clear that Eliot makes a connection between the world of art and the ability of the artist to depict the sublime nature of man within the realm of reality. Rather than attempt to disguise the truth of existence behind a smokescreen of shallow description and surface paint detail, Eliot acknowledges the ability of an artistic view of the world to more fully engage the attention of the reader, observer or audience, but that this effort should be engaged as a means of discovering the deeper nature of mankind, not just the pretty parts or the parts that work well, but the inner natures and desires that affect each and every person on the planet in different ways and to different effects. At the same time, she recognizes the ability of nature to more accurately and fully furnish the imagery of events, providing readers with a more accessible understanding of events. Perhaps the best way to understand what Eliot intended when she talked about art is to examine how she applied this principle in her work, particularly as it can be seen in her most popular and widely-read work, Middlemarch. Middlemarch is a novel of epic proportions as it is seen through the eyes of a woman rather than a man. In other words, rather than following the heroic and sometimes highly exaggerated struggles of a single character as he strives to save his world from certain destruction of some sort, Eliot presents her epic as a struggle by a variety of people to survive in a world in which not all elements of the game are knowable or controllable.&.