It is the mainstream view to regard Hetty Sorrel in Adam Bede as tragic woman who embodies vanity, narcissism and degradation, and thus, represents the rebel of Victorian woman by standard. However, by decoding through Archetypal Criticism, it is find that Hetty’s tragedy results from the parochialism and isolation of the surrounding community, especially as discard of both social mother and natural mother: it is the absence of the social mother that leads to Hetty’s excessive narcissism and release of her shadow in the woods; it is then vain effort of seeking shelter from natural mother that finally arouses desperate Hetty’s impulsive murder of her child on the field, which becomes an irony to “Mother Earth”. Through Hetty’s tragedy, it is to see George Eliot’s anxiety of gender and her view on women shadowed by patriarchy, and her reflection on the scarred identity of Victorian fallen women upon which community showers its bias and rejection.