Analyse the development of Silas Marner's character in the novel. Pay particular attention to the change after he finds Eppie.

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Analyse the development of Silas Marner’s character in the novel. Pay particular attention to the change after he finds Eppie.

To analyse Silas Marner’s character I am going to look at events before Eppie arrived, when Eppie arrives and after Eppie arrives. These key scenes will show Silas’ change of character during the book and why this change takes place.

To see how much Silas has changed I am going to look at three key events that happened to Silas before Eppie arrived.

Silas was a work-a-holic because he isolated himself from the rest of the world and he doesn’t know anyone is Raveloe because he isolated himself from them when he had to move from Lantern Yard and because he works all the time so he doesn’t have any time to socialise with the people of Raveloe.

He works as something to do but ends up becoming a work-a-holic and working is his only life.

“He seemed to weave, like the spider, from pure impulse, without reflection. Every mans work, persuaded steadily, tends in this way to become an end in itself, and so to bridge over the loveless chasms of life, Silas’ hand satisfied itself with throwing the shuttle, and his eye with seeing the little squares in the cloth complete themselves under his effort”

This quote is important because it shows how much Silas works. He gets paid for his work but at first he didn’t think about the money until Mrs Osgood had given him it. After that he became to like the money more and more and eventually became money orientated.

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He became money orientated because he had no friends and no family to keep him company. The money was like his only companion and his family. His money is so important to him because he doesn’t have any friends or family or a social life and his life is devoted to working. Counting the money is like a break from his work, but he gets obsessed.

“Marner wanted the heaps of ten to grow into a square, and then into a larger square; and every added guinea, while it was itself a satisfaction, bred a new desire … but the ...

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