Both Uses of
metamorphosis
in
Middlemarch
- Surely, his very features changed their form, his jaw looked sometimes large and sometimes small; and the little ripple in his nose was a preparation for metamorphosis.†
Chpt 2 *
- She might have compared her experience at that moment to the vague, alarmed consciousness that her life was taking on a new form that she was undergoing a metamorphosis in which memory would not adjust itself to the stirring of new organs.†
Chpt 5
Definition:
a complete or major change in form, character, or structure -- often refers to an insect's transformation from larva to adult