Flashbacks

Middlemarch

by George Eliot

Middlemarch: Flashbacks 1 key example

Book 2, Chapter 15
Explanation and Analysis—Lydgate in Paris:

When introducing readers to Lydgate, Eliot uses a flashback, as introduced by the narrator in the following way:

For those who want to be acquainted with Lydgate it will be good to know what was that case of impetuous folly, for it may stand as an example of the fitful swerving of passion to which he was prone, together with the chivalrous kindness which helped to make him morally lovable. The story can be told without many words. It happened when he was studying in Paris.