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A young man's discovery of his Jewish origins, and later adoption of his ancestral faith, is at the centre of Eliot's 1876 novel "Daniel Deronda." The idealistic Daniel only discovers in adulthood that he is the son of a famous singer, who abandoned her child, family and religion to devote herself to her art. By this time he has already befriended Gwendolen Harcourt, a selfish young woman who married a "tame" husband for money and found herself tied to a mental sadist. Daniel helps her to accept her lot. They have strong feelings for each other, but in the end he marries Mirah, a devout young Jewish singer who is related to a family for whom Daniel feels great friendship. Their relationship is felt by many readers to be rather bloodless, but it fits in with the novel's themes of resignation and self-sacrifice, since Daniel and Mirah decide to devote their lives to the Jewish cause.
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