Adam Bede

Nicole Reyes Shockley, 2nd Adam Bede Analysis In the passage “Adam Bede”, George Eliot uses connotation and tones to make the reader feel closer to the writing. Throughout the passage there are many tones, but I mainly recognized admonishing and somber tones. The author uses personification for the ‘main character’, Leisure. When Eliot states that “Leisure is gone—gone where the spinning-wheels are gone, and the packhorses....” it gives the reader a great feeling of change, shich shows the tone of somberness within the passage. Eliot feels that leisure is gone because of all the new technology that was supposed to make life easire, but instead it make like more of a ‘task’. If the author did not constantly repeat that “Leisure is gone” the passage would not be the same, because Eliot uses that as a bridge that leads on to explain why leisure is gone and what was, or is, so important abou it. The author wants us to see that if leisure is not protected from technology, then peoples lives will be full of chaos.