Silas Marner
George Eliot the pseudonym of Mary Anne Evans was born in
Warwickshire, England in 1819. Eliot was one of the finest realists of
Victorian fiction and produced a remarkable range of intellectual
novels throughout her life, including the moral fable of Silas Marner.
The 19th Century was an extremely patriarchal period, which Mary Anne
Evans had to pen her name as George Eliot, otherwise her novels would
not be published. George Eliot was a critic of the Victorian society
in which she lived, and which she felt remarkably hypocritical in its
treatment of her, as an intelligent, freethinking woman, who lived
with a man to whom she was not married. She wrote in numerous ways
affectionately but realistically of rural life, which she frequently
compared positively to the life of the town. The Industrial Revolution
seemed to Eliot and to many other social critics to threaten the
natural human and community ties which were the basis of a happy life
and this underlies the action of Silas Marner despite seldom being
seen or directly referred to. Eliot is a more severe novelist of
organized religion, particularly in Lantern Yard. She brings many
themes into the novel such as religion, custom, social change and
superstition.
The effect of the Napolenic war meant that landowners could earn
significant amounts of money from farming, since prices for crops
remained high and so it is clear to see why there were none to keen
for the war to terminate.
Silas Marner is the protagonist of the tale, when ostracised from
Lantern Yard and church after being falsely accused of embezzlement.
Silas Marner is a fable, a story with a mor...
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... make up for the wrong his
brother had done to the weaver in stealing his gold. Mr Macey
explained how right he always had been about Silas, and the return of
his money. The villagers while waiting for the feast consider the
blessings that Silas had brought on himself by taking Eppie in. His
patience had been rewarded, his gold restored, his daughter preferring
him to her blood father and now Silas had son to help care for him in
his retirement. The once outcast weaver was now a respected and
well-loved family man:
The garden was fenced with stones on two sides, but in front there was
an open fence, through which the flowers shone with answering
gladness, as the four united people came within sight of them. ' O
father', said Eppie, 'what a pretty home ours is! I think nobody could
be happier than we are´. (p.237)
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