* HoYay: While surely the furthest thing from Eliot's mind, Mordecai's obsession with Daniel easily presents itself as this to modern audiences.
* RetroactiveRecognition: That's Creator/JamieBamber as Hans Myrick in the TV adaptation.
* VindicatedByHistory: Few prior British literary works had sympathetic Jewish characters ({{Literature/Ivanhoe}} being a major exception) and up until the mid 20th century, the general critical comment was pretty much "decent novel, shame it focused so much on those Jews".
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