Silas Marner

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Introduction.

George Eliot wrote the novel called Silas Marner in 1861.

The plot of this novel is based on relationships between people. Throughout George Eliot gives us the different relations between different people, showing us what love is, and what it is not. It tells you about one man, everyone else’s life in the novel is involved with him or around him.  How Silas Marner is a quiet linen weaver, and who keeps himself to himself, until somehow he faces life with a little orphan child, Eppie. The child changes Silas Marners life in a completely different direction, getting him involved with the people in Raveloe, and he warms his heart towards Eppie. George Eliot gets you involved with how relationships change in the novel, how close parents and children and feelings are towards each other through the characters in the book. It all started when Silas Marner was framed for a murder he did not commit. He then moved away to Raveloe, where the story begins of meeting Eppie and Silas getting close to her. George Elliot makes you see the difference of lantern yard and Raveloe, before and after the industrial revolution.

The values in this novel are different from the way we are now, as they go through the smallest details, talking about such unimportant things, not like we do now. George Elliot writes about those times when every little detail mattered, goes through them thoroughly.

Main Part.

It all began when Silas moved to Raveloe and started to weave again. The money he got from was stored, as he usually gave it to church. He doesn’t anymore, because when he got framed for murder he said God would clear him and prove him innocent, but he didn’t. So Silas kept the money for him and the amount grew and grew. This is where another person comes in and steals the money from Silas, a person who is connected with a large part of the story. His name was Dunsey (Dunstan) and is the squire Cass’s son, who was the greatest man in Raveloe, was one among several landed parishioners, but he alone was honoured with the title of squire. The squire Cass’s other son, Godfrey was poor, and also secretly married to Molly Farren, a drunken wife that Godfrey did not live with. Dunsey is trying to get £100 pounds from Godfrey and is threatening him to tell their dad about Godfrey’s wife;

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  “I might tell the Squire how his handsome son was married to that nice young woman, Molly Farren, and was very unhappy because he couldn’t live with his drunken wife,”

 The squire Cass will throw him out. Godfrey is then persuaded to hand over his horse Wildfire to Dunsey to pay off the money. He then “staked” the horse and killed it. Dunsey walked away from the scene and decided to steal the money he heard about from Silas Marner. He goes to Silas’s house and steals the money from beneath the floorboards and walks out into the ...

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