| Abstract (in English) | 第5页 |
| Abstract (in Chinese) | 第6-7页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第7-9页 |
| Introduction | 第9-13页 |
| Chapter One: The Social and Personal Background of Eliot's Moral Views | 第13-24页 |
| 1.1 The social and cultural background of the Victorian age | 第13-15页 |
| 1.2 Eliot's life experience and the source of her ideas | 第15-24页 |
| 1.2.1 Eliot's life experience | 第15-17页 |
| 1.2.2 Philosophical and religious influences on Eliot | 第17-20页 |
| 1.2.3 Eliot's moral standard | 第20-24页 |
| Chapter Two: An Analysis of Moral Growth in Adam Bede | 第24-42页 |
| 2.1 Adam's long journey to maturity | 第24-31页 |
| 2.2 Arthur's process of knowing himself | 第31-35页 |
| 2.3 Hetty's final repentance | 第35-37页 |
| 2.4 Dinah's acknowledgement of true happiness | 第37-42页 |
| Chapter Three: Humanistic Ideas Leading to the Realization of Moral Growth | 第42-52页 |
| 3.1 Eliot's standpoint in moral teaching | 第42-44页 |
| 3.2 Essential aspects in achieving moral growth | 第44-52页 |
| 3.2.1 The law of consequences | 第45-47页 |
| 3.2.2 The sense of liability | 第47-49页 |
| 3.2.3 Altruism | 第49-52页 |
| Conclusion | 第52-54页 |
| Works Cited | 第54-56页 |
