Silas Marner consists of Part One and Part Two between which sixteen years have passed.

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Section I - Plot Analysis:

Silas Marner consists of Part One and Part Two between which sixteen years have passed. Part One introduces Silas Marner as a lonely weaver. Briefly, the novel flashes back to fifteen years earlier when he was falsely accused of theft and forced to emigrate from his industrialized town to a village in the countryside. The story picks up Silas Marner sixteen years later and the reader is treated to his hardships over the next fifteen years and eventual good fortune. The purpose of the author is to show that a poor person, who has been so badly treated by his fellow man that he has lost faith in God, is capable of overcoming his despair, and leading a virtuous life.

George Eliot, whose real name was Mary Ann Evans, begins by depicting Silas Marner and his unfortunate situation. Set in the pastoral English countryside village of Raveloe, at the turn of the nineteenth century, when the industrial revolution was in progress, Silas Marner is a pallid man, of thirty nine years of age, who is disillusioned and has placed his trust in his money more then in man. Nevertheless, he still