We have the poor, hard-working guy, Adam, and the rich spoiled boy who seems unable to control himself, Captain Donithorne, and finally we have Dinah the saint who kind of saves the day in the end. Almost every male is in love with Hetty and no ones realises that she might be pretty, but she is full of herself and she doesn’t even realise in what way her actions might affect herself and other people. I am not going to give you more details about the plot because I always make it sound like a bad soap opera and in some ways I think that that is exactly what it is. It follows four characters the beautiful but superficial Hetty Sorrel, the young squire who seduces her Arthur Donnithorne, the Methodist preacher Dinah Morris, who is described as the complete opposite of Hetty, and the hard-working Adam Bede who is so in love with Hetty that unconsciously turns a blind eye to all her faults. On a story told to George Eliot by her aunt Elizabeth Evans, a Methodist preacher, and the original of Dinah Morris of the novel, of a confession of child-murder, made to her by a girl in prison (The Oxford Companion of English Literature 1967). Adam Bede was first published in 1859 and it is the writer’s first novel. As I am sure you already know the name George Eliot is the pen name of Mary Ann Evans, who decided to sign her books using a male name because at the time women were thought to be incapable of serious writing.
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