The importance of this novel comes from that it is partially based on Eliot’s own experiences with her family and her brother Isaac, and being one of the first novels to consider the problems and lives of middle-class English country people and presenting their lives in great details. Her second literary work was a novel called The Mill on the Floss (1860), it is considered as the most famous novel of George Eliot. The characters’ dialogue, which is repeated within the context of the narrative structure of the novel, relies on the local dialects and accents spoken in the central regions of Enclater, which the author heard a long time ago. The writer refers to the story and characters from a realistic viewpoint that shows Eliot’s nostalgia to her past which had social stability and order, where everyone knew their rights and duties. It is an example of realism, showing us how the hero learns to cope with surrounding circumstances and the novel talks about a woman who admits to the killing of her child under the influence of religion and social norms. The novel revolves around a love rectangle between Hetty, Arthur, Adam, and Dinah Morris.

The novel mainly talks about the influence of the Methodist Church within the lower classes of the population. It is a story about love, religious feelings, innocence, self-deception, and experiences of the English society in a critical period of time.

One of George Eliot’s most popular and famous works was Adam Bede, a novel that was her first literary product and was published in 1859.

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