Silas Marner by George Eliot - Carefully examine the way in which the
momentous events of New Year’s Eve dramatically changed Silas Marner’s life.
Carefully examine the way in which the momentous events of New Year’s
Eve dramatically changed Silas Marner’s life.
“Silas Marner” the novel wrote by George Eliot, is about the linen
weaver of an isolated village known as Raveloe. Marner was once a well
respected member of a community in a northern district town called
Lantern Yard. But after everyone thinking he had been possessed by
Satan, a string of events took place where he lost everything he ever
valued.
Marner was a very religious man and a devote Christian. He was always
socialising and very much part of the society. He was forever in the
church and gave everything he had to them. An example for this is
shown on page 14.
“……Marner was highly thought of in that little hidden world known to
itself as a church.”
This showed that people thought a lot of him and was an extremely
popular guy. He had many friends, but one special one who he relied
upon for everything. His name was William Dane. He was also in a
loving relationship with his fiancée Sarah.
After Silas was framed for the theft of the church money, by his so
called friend William Dane, he becomes a complete social outcast. At
first he thinks God will clear him, but this hope turned into misery
when his religious community casts him out. His faith in god is
completely lost. Sarah breaks up with him and soon marries William
Dane. This makes him realise he can not trust man either. This is
shown on page 20,
“…….Poor Marner went out with that despair in his soul- That shaken
trust in God and man, which is a little short of madness to...
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... isolated outcast, to
a suspicious foreigner and now a well respected member of his society.
Marner’s main priority is Eppie. This is shown when the money is
handed back to him and he says “….it takes no hold of me now.” This
shows all of his love is concentrated on Eppie. His life has had many
ups and downs but he has got on with it and in the end has become a
much stronger person, with his faith in God and man restored. This is
shown when he says,
“……Since the time the child was sent to me and I’ve come to love her
as myself, I’ve had light enough to trusten by, and now she says
she’ll never leave me, I think I shall trusten till I die.”
This puts his mind at ease that he will always have someone to love
who will love him back.
All of these events have shown that Marner’s life has changed
dramatically to make him a much stronger, reliable person.
Who would be willing to die for their loved ones? Romeo and Juliet would and did. Romeo and Juliet’s love and death brought two families together who could not even remember the origin of their hate. When the parents saw what their children's love for each other, they realized that their fighting had only led to suffering and insoluble conflict. Romeo and Juliet loved each other to an extent that they killed themselves rather than live apart. They did it with no hiatus. Juliet says before she kills herself, “O happy dagger, This is thy sheath. There rust and let me die.”( 5, 3, 182-183) demonstrating how she would rather die than not be with him.
“Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?” T.S. Eliot
"From the time of my marriage to this day the love I have borne my wife has been sincere and unabated; and only those who have felt the glowing tenderness a father cherishes for his offspring, can appreciate my affection for the beloved children which have since been born to us" (22).
There are reasons that the Lord of the Rings trilogy has spanned nearly one hundred years, allowing children to connect with their grandparents through their love of the tale, and that stories like Harry Potter have defined a generation: the story of a journey is one that audiences love to hear. Reading and watching about journeys can make the reader/watcher experience that journey with the characters. Journeys, however, do not have to be fantastical or magical to be powerful to a person. T.S. Eliot and Robert Frost, for example, were both modernist poets, but they were creators of journeys that seemed much simpler. This is not to say, however, that the journeys they wrote of were incredibly similar. Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” and Frost’s “The Road Not Taken” both depict in first-person form physical journeys by the speakers, through a city and through the woods, respectively, but also the metaphorical journey taken through life. The speakers of each of these poems are in different stages of their life-journeys, which provides them each with a different perspective. The speakers also have very different attitude to their journeys, showing that the stage and setting of a journey can greatly affect how that journey is perceived by the journeyer.
Edgar's role in King Lear, Act 3, Scene 4. In Act 3, Scene 4, Edgar takes on the role of a madman, and a spirit. In counterfeiting madness, he not only hides from an unjust death, but also serves as a character that resembles King Lear: (1) Both are deceived by family; (2) Both are outcasts of Gloucester's castle; (3) Both are threatened with death; and (4) Both enter into a form of madness. But, whereas King Lear actually becomes mad, Edgar only feigns madness.
In his poem “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” T.S. Eliot subtly conveys a wide variety of Prufrock’s emotions; he creates pathos for the speaker by employing the “objective correlative,” which Eliot defines as “a set of objects, a situation, a chain of events [that] shall be the formula of that particular emotion” (“Hamlet and His Problems”).
describes her baby as precious and if it is worth a lot to her, 'love
T.S. Eliot, a notable twentieth century poet, wrote often about the modern man and his incapacity to make decisive movements. In his work entitled, 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock'; he continues this theme allowing the reader to view the world as he sees it, a world of isolation and fear strangling the will of the modern man. The poem opens with a quoted passage from Dante's Inferno, an allusion to Dante's character who speaks from Hell only because he believes that the listener can not return to earth and thereby is impotent to act on the knowledge of his conversation. In his work, Eliot uses this quotation to foreshadow the idea that his character, Prufrock, is also trapped in a world he can not escape, the world where his own thoughts and feelings incapacitate and isolate him.
very good, but he had lost some of his focus. Later, in his high school career,
Love of Life and Fear of Death in the Works of T.S. Eliot and Yulisa Amadu Maddy
Eliot's Themes of Death and Futility in the Poem Remind Your Self of The Hollow Men
The Roaring Twenties is considered to be a time of excessive celebration and immense corruption. The novel, The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald is a criticism of American society and its values during this era of history. This criticism is first apparent in the people who go to Gatsby's parties. They get absurdly drunk, do not know who their host is and are rude by excessively gossiping about him. This commentary is also shown in the corruption of the police. Gatsby is able to pay off the police so that the activities going on at his home will go unnoticed and so that he may behave as he wishes. This criticism is finally shown in the corruption of friendship and love, the simple fact being that there is none. People use Gatsby and then throw him away. Fitzgerald's criticism of American society and its values during this time period is first shown in the behaviour of people at Gatsby's parties.
essential part of the novel as it brings out a key theme in the novel
“Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go,” T.S. Eliot is basically trying to say that only people who push their limit can actually see how much they can really accomplish. T.S. Eliot made poetry that showed his negative views on life, people, and world. T.S. Eliot took poetry to another level by the way he writes and uses symbolism.