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Adam Bede
by George Eliot
Because I was rereading [b:David Copperfield|58696|David Copperfield|Charles Dickens|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1461452762s/58696.jpg|4711940] during some of the time I was reading this, I couldn’t help but compare the characters (and situations) of one book to the other: for example, the extremes between the adorable Dora/Hetty and the angelic Agnes/Dinah. And though I know Eliot had reservations about Dickens’ works, I see how she extends -- into realism -- a character like [b:David Copperfield|58696|David Copperfield|Charles Dickens|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1461452762s/58696.jpg|4711940]’s Emily.
Also interesting to me is that an arguably sensational theme of Adam Bede is an important theme of the Norwegian [a:Knut Hamsun|18317|Knut Hamsun|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1455562757p2/18317.jpg]’s [b:Growth of the Soil|342049|Growth of the Soil|Knut Hamsun|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1420733175s/342049.jpg|2435698], another book I was reading concurrently.
If I'd read this as a young teenager, my sympathies would've been with a minor character, the younger brother Seth. As it is, I still have some of those residual feelings toward him, helped by my agreeing with his comment on the last page, which is opposed to the more traditional view of his brother, the eponymous hero. The latter has left me with a vaguely irritated feeling, though nothing he said beforehand bothered me. With this statement of his, though, Eliot is following history; and her biggest strength in this, her first full-length novel, is that of social historian.
Also interesting to me is that an arguably sensational theme of Adam Bede is an important theme of the Norwegian [a:Knut Hamsun|18317|Knut Hamsun|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1455562757p2/18317.jpg]’s [b:Growth of the Soil|342049|Growth of the Soil|Knut Hamsun|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1420733175s/342049.jpg|2435698], another book I was reading concurrently.
If I'd read this as a young teenager, my sympathies would've been with a minor character, the younger brother Seth. As it is, I still have some of those residual feelings toward him, helped by my agreeing with his comment on the last page, which is opposed to the more traditional view of his brother, the eponymous hero. The latter has left me with a vaguely irritated feeling, though nothing he said beforehand bothered me. With this statement of his, though, Eliot is following history; and her biggest strength in this, her first full-length novel, is that of social historian.