The Changes Eppie Make to Silas' Life

The Changes Eppie Make to Silas' Life

In order to understand the changes that Eppie made to Silas' life we

must first understand the kind of man he had become. We can do this by

examining why and how he has been mentally hurt in his early life.

Silas originally led a very religious life in the church, he was happy

and contented. Silas had friends and a fiancée whom he loved. This all

led to disaster as his best friend William also loved his fiancée.

Silas has a disorder which causes him to have cataleptic fits at

irregular times. One day Silas had a cataleptic fit while he is caring

for the senior Deacon in the Church. William then betrayed Silas by

coming into the room of the Deacon and stealing the Deacon's money by

prising open the safe with Silas' knife. Then, when Silas comes out of

his fit, he finds the Deacon dead. He calls for help. Later the Church

discovers the money has gone and Silas' knife was used to open the

safe. Silas is charged with robbery and humiliated in front of

everyone, including his fiancée, Sarah. 'The lots declare that Silas

Marner was guilty' (9.13). Silas is cast out from the church and told

never to return. He is aghast and feels that he has been let down by

God, 'But you may prosper, for all that: there is no just God that

governs the earth righteously, but a God of lies, that bears witness

against the innocent' (2.14).

Silas goes home and sits in self-pity too sad to weep and trying to

decide whether or not to go and persuade Sarah that he was innocent.

Marner then goes back to weaving but does not leave his room, the

minister and the deacon brought him a message from Sarah renouncing

their eng...

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...las' catastrophe at Lantern Yard, the first person that he

trusted was Eppie and she started to persuade him that not everyone

was a thief and that not everyone was trying to deceive and betray

him. So he started to trust other people again and see them as friends

not enemies.

Silas has come from being unpopular and unhappy to really quite happy

and enjoying life at the end because he has made his own way from

being feeble and almost useless to a friendly face that people enjoy

seeing and talking to, and he has made it all this way on his own.

So Eppie changes Silas life in the most extraordinary ways that no

normal human being could do, only a child's long-term influence on a

lonely old man can do. For something to change in you, you must

believe in that thing and they will happen with out you even knowing

it.