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Why doesn’t the Reverend Irwine speak up for Hetty?
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Abstract
When the Reverend Irwine informs Adam Bede that Hetty has been charged with infanticide, the young man reacts with understandable violence. Adam’s first response is an explosive ‘It can’t be!’ (p. 408), by which the honest fellow means that, for all he has done, Hetty is still a virgin. Of course, as her intended husband in a couple of weeks (the very day she goes to the gallows, as it turns out), the general scurrilous assumption may well be that he is the father of Hetty’s murdered baby and that she ran away and smothered it rather than spend the rest of her life as Mrs Adam Bede.
When Irwine persuades him –– by means of the magistrate’s letter –– that the awful news from Stoniton is probably true, Adam extracts from the parson an assurance that he will inform the Poysers that he, Adam, is innocent of seducing Hetty.
Title: Why doesn’t the Reverend Irwine speak up for Hetty?
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Abstract
When the Reverend Irwine informs Adam Bede that Hetty has been charged with infanticide, the young man reacts with understandable violence.
Adam’s first response is an explosive ‘It can’t be!’ (p.
408), by which the honest fellow means that, for all he has done, Hetty is still a virgin.
Of course, as her intended husband in a couple of weeks (the very day she goes to the gallows, as it turns out), the general scurrilous assumption may well be that he is the father of Hetty’s murdered baby and that she ran away and smothered it rather than spend the rest of her life as Mrs Adam Bede.
When Irwine persuades him –– by means of the magistrate’s letter –– that the awful news from Stoniton is probably true, Adam extracts from the parson an assurance that he will inform the Poysers that he, Adam, is innocent of seducing Hetty.
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