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Silas Marner
When Silas Marner moves to Raveloe, he dedicates himself to his craft and his business and isolates himself from society. Squire Cass is a wealthy, powerful man in the society of Raveloe and the...
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Silas Marner
George Eliot's novel prominently features the theme of the relationship between faith and community in two distinct ways. Silas Marner had believed himself to be part of a close community based on...
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Silas Marner
Much of the first part of Silas Marner is concerned with Silas’s change from holding spiritual beliefs to becoming a total materialist. The author shows how this loss of faith resulted from...
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Silas Marner
In his youth, Silas Marner must leave what he thought was a close, protected life in his religious community. Suffering from betrayal and reversal of fortune, he feels compelled to run away from...
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Silas Marner
Coincidence, or chance, is a key driver of the plot in this novel. Some instances of chance are outlined below: It is chance that sends the good-hearted Silas into exile from his religious...
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Silas Marner
The informality with which Silas Marner is able to adopt Eppie may seem extreme by today’s standards, but the English social welfare system at the time offered relatively few options for orphans....
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Silas Marner
The character of Godfrey is not meant to be liked. If he were perhaps Elliot would not have written him so weak and with a huge lack of initiative. We may feel sorry for him for being so weak and...
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Silas Marner
It is important to remember that this novel is written in a very different time when people held (by our standards) very traditional religious views that shaped their outlook on life and on many...
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Silas Marner
In Chapter 5 of George Eliot's Silas Marner we find the eponymous main character at his most comfortable, happy, and hopeful. This contrasts enormously from his state of mind when he first came to...
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Silas Marner
On Chapter II, Part 1 we find the character of Sally Oates, a cobbler's wife, who was sitting by the fire suffering from symptoms of "heart disease and dropsy" which reminded him of the symptoms...
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Silas Marner
Arguably, Silas loved many things throughout his years in Raveloe. It really depends on what he was focusing on at the moment. However, it is arguable that Eppie is the source of love in Silas's...
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Silas Marner
In chapter 11, the party serves as the setting of one of the most poignant encounters between Nancy Lammeter and Godfrey Cass. Keep in mind that the Lammeter and the Cass clans are two of the most...
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Silas Marner
A prominent Raveloe landowner, Squire Cass does not parent his sons in a consistent manner. For the most part, he is lenient and neglectful, frequenting the Rainbow where he socializes and provides...
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Silas Marner
This quote comes in Chapter 11, which describes the New Year's party which is so important for various reasons to the plot of the story as a whole. What is interesting about this quote is the way...
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Silas Marner
This quote comes from Chapter 11 and is set at the New Year's party where Godfrey Cass and Nancy are the subject of fierce speculation regarding their relationship. What is important to note is...
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Silas Marner
After Silas Marner is robbed, he is "mushed," as the townspeople say. That is, Marner is absolutely devastated as the gold was all that motivated him throughout his day. When he goes to the inn in...
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Silas Marner
Godfrey is the eldest son of a powerful man who is a landowner, runs the Red House estate, and is rich under the parameters of a small town such as Raveloe. This being said, it was expected for a...
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Silas Marner
Content, simple, and not extremely academic, we find in the character of Dolly Winthrop the quintessential example of the classical country woman: the matron of all, who is always there to provide...
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Silas Marner
This short chapter accurately describes the change in fortune that Godfrey has experienced. With the death of his wife, and the removal of his brother, Dunstan, his secret is truly a secret and the...
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Silas Marner
A great example of the atmosphere of the New Year's Eve party comes when Nancy Lammeter arrives and enters the house of Godfrey Cass, as it perfectly captures the sense of eager anticipation and...
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Silas Marner
This section of the novel is actually deeply symbolically revealing about Silas's character and likewise the child that he finds. He discovers the child on his doorstep in Chapter 12. We are told...
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Silas Marner
Silas Marner's vocation is shown to us on Chapter 1, and it states that he is a linen weaver. He appears to be specially talented in this area since he really catches the attention of the Raveloe...
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Silas Marner
In Silas Marner by George Eliot, the eponymous protagonist, Silas, is portrayed as changing dramatically due to the events that transpired at Lantern Yard. Marner in his earlier life in Lantern...
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Silas Marner
The answer is quite simple. After all the years Silas Marner spends in forced isolation, obsessively gathering gold, and focusing on nothing but himself, he has a life changing event. Dunsey Cass,...
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Silas Marner
In the novel, Dunstan holds Godfrey's secret marriage to Molly Farren (an opium addict) over his head. As the only one with full knowledge of Godfrey's unsavory connection to Molly, Dunstan is able...
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Silas Marner
The New Year’s dance is at the Red House. The guests at the part include Mr. Godfrey Cass, Mrs. Kimble, and the two Miss Gunns. There are a lot of women. Nancy is relieved that her aunt Mrs....
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Silas Marner
Chapter 11 and Chapter 12 are juxtaposed to highlight the plight of poor Molly as Godfrey in Chapter 11 makes moves towards gaining a second wife whilst he first wife is still alive. The New Year's...
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Silas Marner
The robbery that you refer to occurs in Chapter 4, after Dunstan's plan of selling the horse belonging to Godfrey have come to naught when the horse dies in an accident. Making his way through...
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Silas Marner
The people of Raveloe view the linen weavers with distrust.The villagers are a provincial people, "honest folk", but "mostly not overwise or clever". Isolated from advances in...
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Silas Marner
We are given a sight of Eppie and how she has changed in the sixteen year interim that happens between the end of Book I and the beginning of Book II of this fascinating novel. We are first shown...
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Silas Marner
The Lammeters are a very interesting lot, especially the two Lammeter sisters. One of the interesting features of the Lammeters is the fact that all their money has not been able to buy them much...
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Silas Marner
Chapter 1 of this book describes the first theft of which Silas is falsely accused in Lantern Yard. The impact of this false accusation, and the treachery of his friend William, is of course the...
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Silas Marner
Silas Marner is the object of intense suspicion in the village of Raveloe. As a weaver, he has special skills, and this makes the villagers resentful of him and all other weavers. Silas is an...
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Silas Marner
George Eliot herself says in her diary that the idea of Silas Marner came to her quite suddenly. She actually put off her writing of Romola to write the new book which became Silas Marner. The...
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Silas Marner
Overall, the character of Silas demonstrates, through his vicissitudes, a series of moral philosophies. First, life is never certain. No matter how well we do unto others, or how righteous our...
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Silas Marner
The social divisions in Raveloe are made perfectly clear in the New Year's Party that the Squire holds in Chapter 11 of this great novel. There appear to be two groups of villagers. Those of the...
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Silas Marner
We are told what kind of place the Rainbow Inn is at the end of Chapter Five, when Silas Marner decides to go there to inform others of the robbery that has resulted in the loss of his precious...
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Silas Marner
The first reaction is shock. From the very start of the novel, we are told that Silas never ventured into the Rainbow despite it being the town's public house. ..he never strolled into the...
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Silas Marner
Silas Marner, both the character and the story itself, depict the division between the usual and the unusual through the eyes of villagers whose lives of deep routine cannot conceptualize the...
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Silas Marner
The phrase "God will clear me" refers to the utterance that Silas Marner continuously repeated when he was accused of stealing and of having a knife The knife had been found in the bureau by the...
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Silas Marner
The name of the pub in Raveloe is The Rainbow. In the story, it is said that Squire Cass frequents The Rainbow because he has no wife at home. The Rainbow is the place citizens of Raveloe go to...
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Silas Marner
The description of Mrs. Winthrop shows that the role of her character is that of being "supple." She provides Silas with everything that he lacks, from a listening ear to nourishment to advice. She...
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Silas Marner
The two sons of Squire Cass, Godfrey and Dunstan (Dunsey) are known by way of their father, who is a respectable and relatively wealthy man in comparison with the rest of the people of Raveloe. As...
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Silas Marner
Dolly Winthrop coaches Silas Marner on how to care for Eppie, and she strongly urges him to be sure the baby is baptized and receives religious instruction. Gently, she makes suggestions and allows...
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Silas Marner
It is in Chapter 14 that we are given an insight into the thoughts of the general populace of Raveloe, and they are keen to ask exactly the same question that you have. Nobody knows how precisely a...
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Silas Marner
I don't know that I would necessarily call it a "handicap," but the problem that Silas has is that he is sort of "hunched over," if that makes sense. He was a weaver by profession and therefore...
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Silas Marner
The clearest information we are given about the social structure of Raveloe in this fascinating novel is in Chapter Three, which introduces us to the "head" of Raveloe. Of course, as with any...
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Silas Marner
The story of the peddler is very funny in the way it began and developed, because it produces in the reader a unique provincial flavor much familiar to the way in which many neighbors begin rumors...
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Silas Marner
The relationship between Squire Cass and his sons can be characterized as the relationship an administrator has with two bad, lazy, ineffective, and difficult employees who also happen to be...
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Silas Marner
One could certainly argue that redemption and regeneration are important themes in George Eliot’s Silas Marner. This applies first to Silas’s journey in the text. A bitter, miserly old weaver,...
