Research Journal Of English (RJOE) Copyright Oray's Publication Page 141 A study of morality in the George Eliot's Novel 'Adam Bede'

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Mary Ann Evans, known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, poet, journalist, translator, and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. Her primary focus on character analysis from a moral perspective that raised the bar for character development. She firmly holds that a human character is not carved out of stone but rather develops with time. Her main characters have changed from egoism and moral blindness to rigid morality and vision, according to a historical analysis of her writings. The protagonists of her stories tend to be the ones who are open to this beneficial development. George Eliot criticised the moral shortcomings of the main characters in Adam Bede. The extreme moral rigidity and lack of empathy displayed by Adam Bede do not find any support, while Hetty Sorrel and Aubrey Donnithorne's moral weakness in the form of temptation, falsehood, licentiousness, narcissism, and unrestrained, reckless living is denounced. Eliot seeks to convey the moral core of her work through the character of Dinah Morris. Eliot has a unique quality to make her characters faultless and magnificent.

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