"Adam Bede"

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This paper examines conceptual aspects of the novel "Adam Bede" by author George Eliot, otherwise known as Mary Ann Evans. It describes the need for deeper analysis of behavior and its cause- and-effects, both individually and as a society. The paper explains that we are formed and defined by our actions.

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"Eliot says first that we are formed by our deeds, but that we also determine our deeds. We make choices and take actions, and this process forms our character. This would seem to be a combination of the nature versus nurture issue, suggesting that our choices first emerge from our inner nature and that the choices we make shape our character, thus influencing our character and the future choices we make. This is a circular argument, and in a sense it suggests that there is no beginning and no end but only a constant state of acting and becoming throughout our lives. The nature versus nurture argument was always too simplistic, suggesting that only one answer was possible, when it seems more likely that both forces operate to shape us. The two forces operate without our conscious control in any case and interact to make us who we are."

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