5/27/2023 0 Comments Ts eliot bedeWhere no one else could touch Hetty’s hard heart, Dinah can through her gentleness and lack of judgment. It is also a critical scene because it shows the effects of compassion in action. To the extent that Dinah preaches to Hetty and the reader sees Dinah as a preacher and religious woman, the scene is important for what it says about Dinah. Instead the story focuses on Adam and Dinah. Although Hetty is at the center of all the major action of the novel, she is not the subject of the story. She intends to keep the focus on him, even through the more exciting plot developments that center on other characters.ĭinah’s prayer with Hetty in jail and Hetty’s ultimate conversion are a major emotional highpoint in the novel, but they are not the climax of the book. That is why Eliot calls the book Adam Bede.
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