ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Adam Bede, novel written by George Eliot, published in three volumes in 1859. The title character, a carpenter, is in love with an unmarried woman who bears a child by another man. Although Bede tries to help her, he eventually loses her but finds happiness with someone else. Adam Bede was Eliot’s first long novel.

Detailed explanation-2: -Adam Bede by George Eliot has an interesting narrative style where the author takes on the persona of the narrator and goes into a comprehensive exposition of her opinions in asides to the reader as it explores themes of beauty, hard work, family ties, and a lot more.

Detailed explanation-3: -Published in 1859, it is set 60 years earlier in the fictional village of Hayslope, where a morally-upright carpenter named Adam Bede is in love with Hetty Sorrel, a pretty and self-absorbed dairymaid. When Hetty falls pregnant by the young squire of the village, she runs away, gives birth in secret and kills her baby.

Detailed explanation-4: -According to Eliot’s account of the writing of the novel, the character of Dinah Morris is based very loosely on Eliot’s aunt, and Adam Bede himself is based very loosely on Eliot’s father as a young man.

Detailed explanation-5: -Adam realizes that he is in love with Dinah. He proposes, but she rejects him until she comes to realize that it is God’s will that she marry Adam. They are married, and they have two children.