Does Rousseau believe that people are motivated only by self-interest?

Does the social contract sometimes require one to act contrary to his own interests?

How can citizens be sure that laws are established by the "general will" rather than by a deluded "will of all" (p. 277)?

Why does Rousseau believe that a people can never be corrupted (p. 277)?

Why, according to Rousseau, is capital punishment legitimate but killing prisoners in time of war is not (pp. 268, 281-3)?

Are we presently living under the social contract?

Why make Dorothea and Celia orphans (Book 1.Chapter 1.Page 4)?

After Chapter 1, are there any examples of Dorothea rationalizing her motives or behavior? Are any other characters innocent of this?

Why is Casaubon lacking in "passion" (1.7.58) for Dorothea?

How does the epigraph to Chapter 13 reflect on its contents? Chapter 72?

When Dorothea leaves Rosamond & Will suddenly (5.43.412), what is troubling her?

What are the "Two Temptations" of Book 7?

Is "Middlemarch" a feminist novel?

Is religion important in "Middlemarch?"

Why does Eliot give us sentences that look beyond the end of the action? e.g.: "Will never quite knew how it was that he saved himself from falling down at her feet..." (6.54.515) or "...in certain states of dull forlornness Dorothea all her life continued to see the vastness of St. Peter's..." (2.20.184).