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- Hetty Sorrel, fictional character, a naive dairy maid who is seduced and abandoned in the novel Adam Bede (1859) by George Eliot.
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Hetty Sorrel is a major character in George Eliot 's novel Adam Bede (1859). Beautiful but thoughtless Hetty lives in the fictional community of Hayslope — a rural, pastoral and close-knit community in 1799. Her home is on Mr. Martin Poyser's dairy farm as she is his niece.
The lack of feeling toward those who love her comes as a result of two factors. First, she is a child, who needs coddling and admiration. Second, she is consumed by her pride and vanity to the point of being unable to reach out for help even when she desperately needs it. Hetty is a tragic figure.
Character Analysis. Hayslope's Own Material Girl. Hetty Sorrel is a very pretty girl, and an efficient-enough dairymaid. But she isn't particularly accomplished. Or particularly smart. Or particularly nice. You are perfectly within your rights to wonder what a stand-up dude like Adam sees in her.
Hetty Sorrel, fictional character, a naive dairy maid who is seduced and abandoned in the novel Adam Bede (1859) by George.
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She faces reality, abandons her selfish dreams, and reveals herself as a weak and helpless child. At the last moment, Hetty summons the courage to forgive and to love, and is "saved" through the acceptance of human contact. Previous Adam Bede. Next Arthur Donnithorne.
Hetty Sorrel in George Eliot 's Adam Bede (1859) is the quintessentially Victorian "fallen woman," that is, a lower-class maiden who is seduced by the idea of a life of "lace satin and jewels," and is sexually corrupted by a man above her station who has no desire to marry her.
'Adam Bede' chronicles the relationship struggles of the character Adam Bede who is in love with beautiful but selfish Hetty Sorrel who in turn loves Arthur Donnithorne. The love triangle results in a hideous crime with grave consequences and lessons for them all.
