![]() ![]() ![]() Adam Bede and the other characters are purported to be real people who the narrator knows personally, and she even goes so far as to state that the story was told to her by the actual parties involved: "I gathered from Adam Bede, to whom I talked of these matters in his old age. Furthermore, the narrator allows the reader to believe that this is a true story of which she is attempting "to give a faithful account," despite the fact that "the mirror is doubtless defective the outlines will sometimes be disturbed, the reflection faint or confused but I feel as much bound to tell you as precisely as I can what that reflection is, as if I were in the witness-box, narrating my experience on oath" (174). ![]() The romanticism of the setting is enhanced by the fact that the story takes place in the past George Eliot's narrator informs the reader as such in the very first sentence of the novel. The village of Hayslope is an idyllic setting of abundant farmlands populated by simple, good-natured country people. ![]() This novel gives a beautifully descriptive picture of life in a rural English village at the turn of the eighteenth century. This paper will discuss George Eliot's novel Adam Bede. ![]()
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