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Commentary on Lincoln's Address, Adam Bede & the Scarlet Letter
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... Jeremy Sutton English IB 2 Commentary Adam Bede: Tone and Detail The author's tone in the passage from Adam Bede represents Bede's nostalgic feelings for the past, and his disapproval of the present. The tone shows that Bede loved many things of the past, the old fashioned ways of doing things, and now the present is too different and progressed and Bede is no longer comfortable. The detail in this passage aims to compare and contrast the past and present. Bede describes something of the "Old Leisure" and compares it with the present equivalent. He prefers the Old Leisure of the past, yet he feels that Old Leisure is now unwelcome in society, passed up by the new technology and improved leisure of the present. He goes on to say that the present is "prone to excursion-trains, art-museums, periodical literature, and exciting novels: prone to even scientific theorizing," then he contrasts that by saying "Old
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