in novel is smaller but she stands out even more clearly than Adam does. She deals in exaggeration and discusses everything calmly. For instance, she tells Arthur about farming that farming is “putting money into your pocket wi’ your right hand and fetching it out wi’ your left,” and adding to this when she tell Thias bede’s death to Hetty, she says that “but Adam Bede and all his kin might be drowned for what you’d care”.
There are also such characters which are highly agitated by women. If we look at the character of Bartle Massey, Eliot introduced him to us a comic character. His hobby was to make fun of women.For instance when Adam Bede went to meet Bartle Massey, his remarks about women was that “What’s the use o’ law when a man’s once such a fool as to let a woman into his house”? Bartle Massey said that women are nothing but a hassle. In fact he hated women. He said “I heard the sound of women’s voices.” It shows that the concept of fallen women was dominant on the minds of men during Victorian Times. Apart
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Hetty is immature and a materialistic girl while Dinah’s manner is very soft, calm and spiritual. When Mr. Irwine tells Dinah about the death of Thias Bede, her reaction for Lisbeth was pity and she also asks Lisbeth for help while on the same news, Hetty did not show any concern about the news and she was “not deeply affected”. Eliot emphasizes more strongly on this contrast by giving a different sort of beauty to these two women. Dinah’s face is said to be like a “lily” and also Lisbeth compare her beauty to an angel. As her beauty is very pure and spiritual, that it does not make men lustful but respectful. She once says to Mr. Irwine when he asks her “if men bother when she is preaching” that although she has spoken “very hard and wild” before some men, they have always treated her with