Adam Bede has been praised by many for its endearing depiction of the countryside of England and the author herself described the novel as “a country story full of the breath of cows and the smell of Hay”.
Some of the characters in Adam Bede were said to have striking similarities with folks in George Eliot’s life such as the resourceful protagonist, Adam who has similarities with Mary Ann Evan’s father Robert Evans, and the compassionate Dinah Morris who was a female Methodist preacher like Mary Ann Evans’s aunt Elizabeth Evans, the same aunt whose narration of an event in which a woman named Mary Voce was imprisoned and sentenced to death for killing her child, inspired the infanticide in the plot of Adam Bede.
The setting for Adam Bede was inspired by the English countryside of George Eliot’s childhood, where her father was an estate manager in the midlands town of Warwickshire. Her first work of fiction was a collection of short stories first published in a magazine in 1857 and later published as a book in 1858 with the title, Scenes of Clerical Life which consisted of three short stories. Another reason for adopting a pen name was that she lived in an era when female writers were not well accepted in the literary world and society, and so she adopted a masculine name to get a more objective critic of her novel.Īdam Bede is George Elliot’s first full-length novel, but when she wrote Adam Bede, she was already a journalist, translator, and critic. George Eliot is a pseudonym for Mary Ann Evans, a female English writer who adopted a pen name because of her desire to keep her personal life private and for critics to judge her novel on its own merits without the influence of her personality. Climax: Adam’s visit to Hetty Sorrel in prison after she confessed to her crime.Setting: The fictional village of Hayslope and its environs in Rural England during the Georgian Era.Genre: Historical Fiction Pastoral Romance.It narrates the love triangles, hopes, and heartaches of the eponymous character Adam Bede, a poor carpenter but held in high esteem in the village for his hard work, integrity, intelligence, and skill Dinah Morris, an altruistic Methodist preacher, gentle but strong-willed Hetty Sorrel an orphan girl living in her uncle’s farm, selfish and vain in the charms of her physical beauty Arthur Donnithorne, a young captain from the gentry, good-humored and pleased in the good opinion the people in the village have of him and Seth Bede, Adam Bede’s brother, also a carpenter but with more fervor for religion than work and with a mild disposition.
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