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Analysis. Nancy and Godfrey walk home in silence and stand together in the parlor. They look at each other in mutual understanding. Nancy admits they’ll have to give up hope of adopting Eppie. Godfrey says that Marner was right about turning away a blessing from one’s door: it falls to another. Godfrey decides he won’t make it known that ...
Summary. Analysis. Silas Marner discovers that his new home in Raveloe is vastly different than Lantern Yard. The familiar figures, church, minister, and doctrine of Lantern Yard had been the basis of Marner’s faith and the presence of religion in his life. Raveloe seems to Marner to be a world of country abundance in which the villagers do ...
The town of Lantern Yard symbolizes the change that Silas Marner undergoes when he is betrayed and loses his faith in his home community and in God. Early in the book, the parish at Lantern Yard is a tight-knit, devote community, representative of the type of faith Silas Marner exhibits. He is committed to his belief in a benevolent God and ...
The theme of society encompasses both the nature of life in these very different places and Silas Marner’s own changing relationship to his neighbors in Raveloe. Marner’s exclusion from Lantern Yard’s society, his initial willful distance from Raveloe’s society, and his eventual inclusion in this society cause his losing and regaining ...
Dunstan's self-interested dullness is revealed to be his downfall in every way possible as the novel goes on. Near the end of Silas Marner he's found decayed to a skeleton in a dried-up quarry pond. He dies of another mistake of dullness: he falls into the hidden well in a stone-pit because he couldn't see in the dark.
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George Eliot presents Eppie as an angel-like figure, golden-haired and innocent. Her role in Marner’s life is to save him from isolation and darkness, as an angel might have done. Need help with Chapter 14 in George Eliot's Silas Marner? Check out our revolutionary side-by-side summary and analysis.
