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George Eliot’s Religion and Aesthetics in Adam Bede
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Being well established as a leading intellectual in the circle of radical thinkers, George Eliot began to write novels to deliver her philosophy and ethics within the context of real-life situation at the age of thirty-seven. Her philosophy and ethics are intimately related with her religion, and she continues to expound and engage with Christian belief and texts from her first novel, Adam Bede, to the last, Daniel Deronda. “Evangelical Teaching: Dr Cumming” shows her criticism of the lack of Divine love in “dogmatic Christianity,” and “Silly Novels by Lady Novelists” criticizes the lack of verisimilitude in those novels, particularly in the “oracular species” in which authors attempted to elucidate their religious and ethical ideas. In Adam Bede Eliot shows her vision of an ideal novelist through Dinah Morris, Methodist woman preacher. Dinah preaching on the Green brings up the image of a writer giving moral message that one should grow out of egoism and have sympathy for others. However, as an ideal of the novelist, Dinah as minister is more important than Dinah as preacher. She comes to Hetty in prison when she is sentenced to death, and feels with her and weeps with her. Her sympathy and love give Hetty voice, which pours out her misery for the first time. So far Hetty’s story has been told by the male narrator, who is judgmental of her narcissism and indifferent to her sufferings. Now Hetty’s voice reveals how vulnerable and helpless she has been in the materialist, class-oriented, male-centered community of Loamshire. Dinah’s divine love and sympathy are what the Dutch painters in Chapter 17 had for vulgar citizen, and what Eliot needs for her realism to extend from the external world to the inward life of individuals. Eliot’s religion and aesthetics meet in Dinah Morris.
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Being well established as a leading intellectual in the circle of radical thinkers, George Eliot began to write novels to deliver her philosophy and ethics within the context of real-life situation at the age of thirty-seven. Her philosophy and ethics are intimately related with her religion, and she continues to expound and engage with Christian belief and texts from her first novel, Adam Bede, to the last, Daniel Deronda. “Evangelical Teaching: Dr Cumming” shows her criticism of the lack of Divine love in “dogmatic Christianity,” and “Silly Novels by Lady Novelists” criticizes the lack of verisimilitude in those novels, particularly in the “oracular species” in which authors attempted to elucidate their religious and ethical ideas. In Adam Bede Eliot shows her vision of an ideal novelist through Dinah Morris, Methodist woman preacher. Dinah preaching on the Green brings up the image of a writer giving moral message that one should grow out of egoism and have sympathy for others. However, as an ideal of the novelist, Dinah as minister is more important than Dinah as preacher. She comes to Hetty in prison when she is sentenced to death, and feels with her and weeps with her. Her sympathy and love give Hetty voice, which pours out her misery for the first time. So far Hetty’s story has been told by the male narrator, who is judgmental of her narcissism and indifferent to her sufferings. Now Hetty’s voice reveals how vulnerable and helpless she has been in the materialist, class-oriented, male-centered community of Loamshire. Dinah’s divine love and sympathy are what the Dutch painters in Chapter 17 had for vulgar citizen, and what Eliot needs for her realism to extend from the external world to the inward life of individuals. Eliot’s religion and aesthetics meet in Dinah Morris.
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