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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