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Course work:Silas Marner What does the novel Silas Marner have to say about the relationship between parents and their children? Throughout the story of Silas Marner, George Eliot explores the nature of the relationship between children and their parents through many of her main characters in the novel. The novel Silas Marner was written by George Eliot. George Eliot was born in 1819 in Warwickshire. The novel Silas Marner was written in 1861. George Eliot used quote written by William Wordsworth on the title page of her novel. It tells you about how children can completely change the lives of their parents e.g. since Silas found Eppie his whole life has changed completely, Eppie has had a great impact on Silas' life. On the front cover of Silas Marner she writes: "A child more that all other gifts That Earth can offer to a declining man Brings hope with it, and forward looking thoughts" William Wordsworth George Eliot had been influenced by the Victorian Values and has included them in her novel. The Victorians had many values and George Eliot had included some of them in her novel. Duty was very important to Victorian readers for whom George Eliot wrote. These characters in the book who failed in their duty as parents are punished and those who fulfil their duty as parents are rewarded. In Silas Marner duty is presented through the theme of parenting and
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Fairytales are typically improbable stories, which tend to consist of fantastical elements and occurrences. It is a tale involving a series of motifs that take place in an unreal world, involving individualized characters with developed or flat personalities. In the novel, Silas Marner, it is evident that fairytale tends to conquer realism. Thus, Silas Marner contains many aspects of the fairytale and therefore lacks credibility to some readers. Eppie is a beautiful, orphan girl, who whose character does not portray any flaws; therefore she is presented as having a fairytale personality. Eppie is presented as a charming, golden-haired girl. Her beautiful golden hair obtains significance as it symbolizes purity, integrity, delight and innocence, which are all ideal qualities. As a child in the story, even though she is significant, she does not play much of a role, other than being cute and juvenile. The older Eppie, does not go through a lot of change, hence her character does not tend to show much development through the story. However, one of the only times where she is depicted in having the realistic characteristics of loyalty, generosity, and lovingness, are shown in the scene in Chapter 19, where Godfrey, her biological father comes to Silas's house, asking Eppie to come live with him and his wife. Nevertheless, Eppie refuses him and tells him that she will stay with
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Michael Robertson George Mitchell 13410 Silas Marner Silas Marner, by George Elliot, is a story about a weaver who is betrayed by a friend and his fiancée and is forced to move to another town, where he is an outcast alone in the world and overcome by the power of money but is rescued by the love of a child. In a way George Elliot is writing from personal experience. She lived with a married man whom was separated from his wife, and accounts from people who met her say that she was extremely ugly. She used a different name when writing Silas Marner and other books and it would probably not sell as well if it was known that a woman had written the book. The story's themes mainly revolve around money, love, and redemption. In the story Silas is framed for killing of the senior deacon and stealing the money that lay by his bed side. Later on in the story he becomes a miser living as minimallistically as possible in order for his money to grow faster and is nearly broken when his money is stolen by Dunstan Cass whose body is later found with the stolen gold. He is then revived and redeemed when he finds Eppie in his house. Almost immediately after he finds Eppie he is forced to talk and socialise with other people, to buy cloths for her, to find out how to discipline her and to baptise her. Silas soon starts to weave less and look after Eppie, and Godfrey proposes to
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SILAS MARNER: WHEN EPPIE ENTERS SILAS'S LIFE, HE IS GRADUALLY DRAWN BACK INTO SOCIETY AND HIS FAITH IN MEN AND GOD IS RESTORED: Marry Anne, who writes under the pen name George Elliot, was an English novelist and a leading author of the Victorian times. Her novels, such as Silas Marner have spanned many films and plays across the English-speaking world. Just as most other female writers, in order to ensure that her works were taken seriously, she used a male pen name. Silas Marner's former home, Lantern Yard was seemingly a warm, pleasant town, where Silas was well liked and respected. In Lantern Yard, Silas was known for his devotion to his chapel and religion. Silas trusted and revered every one and everything involved with his church. His devotion to religion and friendship with William Dane was what Silas enjoyed most. He was also engaged to a young woman named Sarah who he admired and loved. He felt that his happiness would be assured when/if they get married. However, Silas did not see that William Dane was not the pious man he assumed he was. Silas trusted him explicitly. He failed to see through the duplicity of William Dane. Unexpectedly, Silas was wrongfully accused of stealing the money of the church from the dying deacon. "in little more than a month from that time, Sarah was married to William Dane, and not long afterwards it was known to
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SILAS MARNER - The Final Chapter By: Mary Sotomi Chapter22 Fifteen years into the future with the world developing, places like Larntern Yard and Raveloe have been brought down and industries have been built in place. The children of most of the villagers in Raveloe left because they could not take the innovation while the others stayed behind, Silas Marner, Aaron and Eppie Winthrop were one of the people who felt they should not leave under any circumstances since it would be difficult building a new life elsewhere but accept the changes but learn to live with it for they may come to like it; the city with new houses and buildings, large shopping centres was like a new city reborn. The Kimble's, Lammeter's and the Osgood's also decided to stay in the town and although Mr and Mrs Kimble died fourteen years ago and Priscilla Lammeter passed away two years after the Kimble's death, the Osgood's son; Gilbert still lived here happily married with a son. Raveloe was not like one of those barren parishes lying in the outskirts of civilization but there were plenty of lands that could be used in building structures. The air was quite dense and heavy in the streets at this region in the world. The sun had set and the darkness descending forth with a silence. Suddenly music could be heard from a distance coming nearer and nearer and Eppie was listening to the wonderful
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Silas Marner Silas Marner was a skilled handloom linen-weaver, of simple life who had come to live in the village of Raveloe. The sound of his loom was very different from anything the villagers were used to and the village boys would stare in at his window until he chased them away: Silas´s Loom, so unlike the natural cheerful trotting of the winnowing-machine, or the simpler rhythm of the flail, had a half-fearful fascination for the Raveloe boys, who would often leave their nutting or bird´s- nesting to peep in at the window of the stone cottage, counter balancing a certain awe at the mysterious action of the loom, by a pleasant sense of scornful superiority, drawn from the mockery of its alternating noises, along with the bent, thread-mill attitude of the weaver´ (p.15). The boys of the village were afraid that Silas had an 'evil eye´ and that he could harm them by just looking at them. There was a belief that he had some sort of connection with the devil because of his healing powers. When Silas came to Raveloe he did not make any new friends preferring to keep himself busy by just doing his work. The reason for this was because in Lantern Yard he had been betrayed by his 'friend´, William Dane, who had accused him of theft resulting in the lost of his beloved Sarah and his expulsion from the chapel. In fact Dane had conspired with his fiancée whom he wished