English Coursework:
HOW IS SILAS MARNER DRAWN BACK INTO HUMANITY WHEN HE LOSES HIS GOLD?
The novel Silas Marner is set in the 1780s because George Eliot describes Silas Marner (the main character) as living in Raveloe ‘’in the early years of the century’’ and by this time he had been living there for fifteen years. By the end of the novel, when a further sixteen years have elapsed since Eppie’s arrival, they are in the 1820s. George Eliot set many of her novels in what was, for her, the recent past. This enables her to celebrate the best in traditional rural life, while acknowledging the inevitability of progress and change.
Thus, at the start of the novel, Silas Marner’s prosperity is set against the background of a thriving economy in the countryside at the time of the Napoleonic wars. No one needed to work too hard in order to make a comfortable living: ‘’there were several chiefs in Raveloe who could farm quite badly at their ease, drawing enough money from their bad farming in those war times, to live in a rollicking fashion, and keep a jolly Christmas, Whitsun and Eastertide.
Sixteen years later, however, increased industrialisation means that there is little work for weavers like Marner and Godfrey Cass and his father-in-law discuss ‘’the increasing poor rate and the ruinous times.’’ When Marner and Eppie return to the city in chapter 21, we glimpse the dehumanising effect of industrialisation in the urban areas.
The novel opens in the English countryside. In this era one would occasionally weavers-typically pale who looked like ‘’the remnants of a disinherited race.’’ Because they possessed a special skill and typically had emigrated from, larger towns, weavers were invariably outsiders to the peasants among whom they lived. The peasants were superstitious people, often suspicious of both ‘’cleverness’’ and the world beyond their immediate experience. Thus, the weavers lived isolated lives and often developed the eccentric habits that result from loneliness. Eliot opens Silas Marner by immediately distancing the novel from its readers. The narrator repeatedly stresses that the time, physical setting, and the characters are unfamiliar to us. Eliot evokes the pastoral English country side of the early nineteenth century, emphasising Raveloe’s distance from larger towns, and even larger roads, an isolation that keeps the town mostly ignorant of the intellectual currents of its own time. The characters behave according to a rustic belief system that is distant and alien to them. This distance is temporal as much as it is spatial. Intervening between the era in which the novel is set and the era in which it is written is the industrial revolution. This industrialisation dramatically transformed England from a society of farmers and villagers to one of factories and cities. In Silas Marner Eliot is therefore describing a lost world; ad part of her purpose in the novel is to evoke what she feels has been lost.
The Term Paper on Silas Marner by George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans) (1819 – 1880)
Type of Work:Symbolic, life dramaSettingEnglish village of Raveloe; early nineteenth century Principal CharactersSilas Marner, a lonely and miserly linen-weaverGodfrey Cass, an insensitive, yet charming, young manDunstan Cass, Godfrey’s opportunistic brotherSquire Cass, Godfrey and Dunstan’s lewd, dull-witted fatherEppie, an abandoned little girl Story OverveiwSilas Marner, bent at his loom, was ...
A linen weaver named Silas Marner worked at his vocation in a stone cottage that stood amongst the nutty hedgerows near the village of Raveloe. In the fifteen years Silas has lived in Raveloe, he has not invited any guests into his home, made any effort to befriend other villagers, or attempted to court any of the town’s women.
Before Silas came to Raveloe, he lived in a town to the north, where he was thought of as a young man of ‘’exemplary life and ardent faith.’’ It was a community of faith, held together by a narrow religious belief that Eliot suggests is based more on superstition than any sort of rational thought. Lantern yard was the only community that Silas knows and after the incident, he is unable to find any similar community in Raveloe. During a prayer meeting Silas became rigid and unconscious for more than an hour, fellow church members say that the event was divinely inspired.
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However Silas’s best friend, at the time William Dane said it was a visitation from the devil rather than god. As Silas was troubled by this suggestion he asked his fiancée to be a young servant named Sarah if she wanted to call of their engagement. Though she was inclined to at first she did not. Then the incident happened. One night when Silas stayed up to watch over the senior deacon of lantern yard, who was sick and he was waiting for William to come to relieve him of his duties and then he realized that that it was nearly dawn, the deacon had died and William had not arrived and then he thought he had nodded off through the course of the night. Later that morning, William and the church members came to Silas and accused him of stealing the church money from the deacon’s room. There was even some concrete evidence to add to the accusation Silas’s pocket-knife turned up in the bureau where the money had been stored and the empty money
bag was also later found in his home. Silas also expected god to clear him of his crime but when the church members stressed upon this accusation, Silas was then determined guilty and then excommunicated. Then to make matters worse his fiancée to be Sarah called off their engagement. As crushed as Silas was he remembered that the last time he used his pocket-knife was in the presence of William and he couldn’t remember if he put it back into his pocket again. Then Silas renounced his faith and he left town, just after Sarah and William got married. Silas’s life in Raveloe was easier and there was no one pushing him in a religion and the villagers were easier going. Silas was all alone and he was using his loom as a distraction from worldly life. There were no signs in Raveloe which could make Silas return to old faith. Silas was also to keep all his earnings because he didn’t need to give any to the church. Silas had no other purpose so he felt fulfilled with his extra money that he earned. Then Silas’s life became worse. He found the cobbler’s wife Sally Oats suffering with the heart disease and dropsy; he remembered that his mother used to suffer from the same illness. So he offered her an herbal preparation of foxglove that his mother used to ease the pain. Sadly for Silas Sally got cured and people falsely accused Silas that he had made a deal with the occult. Then everybody came to Silas to ask them to heal their children or themselves. Silas refused and then they called him a bad omen saying that he is to blame for the accidents and misfortunes that befell them. As a result of this Silas became even more isolated from his neighbours.
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A Comparison of Silas Marner and Godfrey Cass Godfrey Cass and Silas Marner are perfect foils. They each developed along similar lines but each differed at certain points. Both were affected by Eppie but Silas was the one who benefit ted the most from it. Eppie's interaction with both also shaped the way they love each's closest people. Godfrey and Silas were both self imposed loners. Godfrey had ...
Then two more characters are introduced into the story, Dunstan Cass and his older brother Godfrey Cass. Dunstan is also called Dunsey and he an unpleasant and snaring young man. Godfrey is good-mannered and handsome but he is a bit of a coward. They have an argument over 100 pounds that Godfrey gave to Dunstan. Dunstan reverses the argument and tells Godfrey to gather the money himself or he will tell their father about Godfrey’s secret marriage to Molly Farren a drunken opium addict. Then Dunstan says to Godfrey to lend money or sell his prized possession, his horse Wildfire. Godfrey is thick enough to agree with Dunsey’s plan even he is not responsible to gather the money as it is Dunsey’s fault. Dunsey is cunning and he controls Godfrey. While the first two chapters establish a tone of monotony and routine the third chapter has narrative tension. Godfrey’ secret wife and Dunsey’s blackmail creates a precarious situation. Silas’s situation is much the opposite: he lives a life marked by unchanging labour and the accumulation of money, a life in which change is hard to imagine.
Dunsey then went off the next morning to sell his brothers horse. He then passed by Silas’s home and he remembered the rumours of Silas’s hoard of gold and he wondered why he didn’t think to persuade Godfrey to ask Silas for a loan. Despite the promise of this idea, he decides to ride on since he is an evil person that he wants his brother to be miserable about the sale of his horse and
he also looks forward to the bargaining and swagger that will be involved in the sale of the horse. Dunsey meets some acquaintances and agrees to the sale of the horse after some negotiations with payment to be handed over upon safe delivery of the horse to the stable.
Dunsey is quite stupid as he risks the horse’s life and takes part in the hunt where he enjoys the prospect of jumping to show off the horse. However in Dunsey’s stupidity he jumps one fence too many and the horse got impaled and died. His own ill-favoured person, which was quite unmark able escaped without harm; but poor Wildfire unconscious of his price , turned off his flank and painfully panted his last. Then Dunsey gets to his feet and goes on his way to his home. All the while he thinks of Silas’s money. When Dunsey passed Silas’s cottage, just after dusk and saw a light through the window, he decided to introduce himself. To his surprise the door was unlocked and the cottage was empty. Tempted by the blazing fire inside he sat down at the hearth and wondered where Silas was. His thoughts quickly to Silas’s money looking around the cottage he noticed a spot in the floor covered with sand. He swept away the sand and the bricks and he found bags of gold which he hastily picks up and he took them out of the house with him.
The Term Paper on Silas Marner Eliot Godfrey Eppie
... bad deeds. He squanders the money Godfrey lends him, then he destroys Godfrey's horse while hunting. Finally, he steals Silas' money.What motivates Dunstan Eliot ... home-he has fallen into another trance and left his door open. When he comes to, he sees the little ... When Dunsey, who's been drinking, strolls into the room, his jeering tone lives up to the villagers' opinion of him. Agitated, Godfrey ...
The parallel narratives of Silas and the Cass family don’t intersect until Dunsey’s theft at the end of chapter four. This theft represents the first of three major intersections between Silas and the Cass family. Dunsey’s theft bridges not only a narrative distance but also a social distance. By juxtaposing the wealthy Cass family and the humble Silas Eliot focuses our attention on the sharp distances in the village of Raveloe.
Silas walks back to his home his legs were vary and his mind was at ease. He had no thought of the open door as he has never been stolen from before. He left piece pork on the fire cooking as he ran an errand. Noticing nothing out of the ordinary, he sits down in front of the fire. He is ecstatic about meeting his money and he cannot wait to bring it out. Then the incident happened. As he removed the bricks he finds that the hole where his money was is empty. He frantically searched for it in the cottage hoping that he had put it somewhere else for the night. He eventually realizes that the gold is gone and he screams in anguish. Then Silas’s life changed. He decided to declare his loss to the important people of the town in the hopes that they may be able to recover the money. Silas goes to the Rainbow the village inn and tavern to find some authority. The theft of Silas’s money is a good thing as it forces him to be involved with the life of the town. As the saying goes: when a windows closes, a door opens. The original theft which drove Silas out of lantern yard and made him an outcast from his tight-knit community and deprived him of any faith except in money. Then Silas goes to the tavern to report his stolen gold.
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He walks in very agitated which gives him a strange and unearthly appearance. Then the landlord tells the man next to Silas who is Jem Rodney to seize Silas, on hearing that name Silas pleads to Jem to give his money back saying that he will not press charges. Silas tells them how much money it was and they go to search for it. The people of the tavern show sympathy to Silas. Silas was looked upon with a mixture of fear and contempt. Silas becomes the object of sympathy. As Eliot notes ‘’our consciousness rarely registers at the beginning of a growth within us any more than without us; there have been many circulations of the sap before we detect the smallest sign of the bud.’’ Silas’s incipient bond with the rest of Raveloe is likened to a bud on a plant, a clearly hopeful and positive metaphor of rebirth.
Godfrey comes home from the dance and Dunsey hasn’t come back. People go to Silas’s cottage to look for evidence. They find a tinder box on the scene and it is suspected to be somehow connected to the crime. Some people think that Silas is mad and possessed and has lied about his theft, others defend him. Some people start to blame a pedlar who passed by the village, they were recalling his
evil looks; Silas remembers that he didn’t invite him to his house. Dunsey still hasn’t returned and Godfrey starts to suspect where he is. However the bond between Silas and the villagers is only reinforced by scapegoating another outsider, the pedlar.
Dolly Winthrop is the wheelwriters wife, a selfless and patient woman. She encourages Silas to go to church since it is Christmastime. Silas does not go to church on Christmas day. Chapter 10 returns us to Silas’s domestic existence, and we see that he is overwhelmed by the void the robbery has left in his life. Though his life before the theft might have appeared empty and sad, it was nonetheless ‘’an eager life, filled with immediate purpose that fenced him in from the wide and cheerless.’’ Likewise, though Silas’s money was, according to the narrator, a ‘’dead disrupting thing,’’ it nonetheless had given him purpose on life and satisfied his need for connection and meaning. Then after he loses his money he is broken and frail in the countenance of an outside world that he long ago rejected as corrupt and hard-hearted. Once again his most valued possession has been taken from him.
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In the novel Silas Marner, by George Eliot, the characters are in a search for happiness. One character named Godfrey Cass is disappointed in his search when relying on wealth and luck, instead of love, does not lead him to happiness. Another character, Silas Marner, looks first to a pile of gold that only consumes his life until he starts loving and caring for a child, who finally brings him ...
Like her earlier comparison of Silas to a budding plant, Eliot’s imagery in this chapter gives us hope for Silas’s recovery. The progression of imagery Eliot used is largely drawn from nature. Silas initially clings to his money as to the roots of a plant, and is confused like ‘’a plodding ant when the earth has broken away on its homeward path.’’ Finally, Eliot foreshadows a metaphor she uses later: Silas is ‘’still the shrunken rivulet, with only this difference, that is little groove of sand was blocked up, and it wandered confusedly against ark obstruction.’’ The three phenomena to which Silas is compared in these metaphors share a common aspect of recovery and self-righting. The roots of the plant will regrow in new soil, the ant will find its way, and the damned stream will rise with water until it flows over its obstruction. Meanwhile there is a new year’s dance at the red house. Godfrey was at the dance and his wife Molly was approaching Raveloe on foot with their baby daughter in her arms. Godfrey has told Molly that he would rather die than acknowledge her as his wife. She also was addicted to opium and she knew that it was the primary reason for her troubles. She has been walking since the morning, and as evening falls, she began to tire and she fell into the snow and cold. She then took a draft of opium (a really bad choice on her part).
The drug made her drowsy, and after a while she passed out by the side of the road, still holding the child. As Molly’s arms relaxed, the little girl woke up and saw a light moving. She follows it to its source, which is the fire in Silas’s nearby cottage. The child ambled through the entrance, sat down on the hearth, and she went to sleep, content in the warmth of the fire. In the weeks since the theft, Silas has developed a habit of opening his door and looking out distractedly, as if he might somehow see his gold return, or at least get some news of it. On New Year’s Eve he was agitated and opened the door repeatedly. The last time he does it he stands out and looks out for a long time,
but he does not see what is coming toward him at that instant: Molly’s child. As he turned to shut the door he had a fit and stood unaware and unmoving with his hand on the open door. When he comes out of the fit- as always unaware that it has even occurred- he closed the door. When Silas walked back inside, his eyes were myopic and weak from his years of close work at the loom, he saw what he thought was his gold on the floor. He leaned forward to touch the gold, but found out that the object under his fingers is soft- the blond hair of the sleeping child. Silas knelt down to examine the child thinking for a moment that she is his little sister who died in childhood has been brought back to him. This memory of his sister triggers a flood of other memories of Lantern Yard the first he has had in many years. These memories occupy Silas until the child wakes up, calling for her mother. Silas reheated some of his porridge and fed it to the child, which quieted her. Finally he sees her boots and follows the trail where she came from to find out where she is from; he stopped when he found her mother’s body. The appearance of the little girl on Silas’s hearth is the second of the three intersections between the parallel narratives of Silas and the Cass family. Like the first intersection, the theft of Silas’s gold, it is one of the novels two major turning points. Her appearance will at once fill Silas’s sense of loss and resumes his progress of re-entering the community. The fact that Silas had first mistaken the little girl for his gold- previously the central driving force of his life- foreshadows the strength of the bond that he will soon forge with the girl.
A key symbolic difference between Dunsey’s visit and the little girl’s, however, is that Silas opened the door himself this time. Even though he opened the door only to peer out into the darkness after his lost gold, and though he is unaware that the girl actually enters, Silas’s act of standing at his open door contrasts markedly with his previous habits. Silas was once a man obsessed with isolation- closing his shutters, locking his doors and viewing his customers as nothing more than a means to acquire money. In opening his door, Silas symbolically opens himself up to the outside world from which he has not lived apart for so long. As Silas realizes, if only vaguely, in chapter 10 ‘’if any help came to his it must come from without.’’
Back at the dance Silas enters the hall carrying Godfrey’s child, shocked, Godfrey walks over to discover what has brought Silas here. Silas was looking for a doctor as he found a woman, apparently dead, lying near his door. Knowing that it is Molly, Godfrey is horrified that perhaps she is not dead. Silas’s appearance causes a stir and the guests are merely told that there a woman has been found ill. A woman suggests that Silas leave the girl at the red house, he refuses claiming that she came to him and she is his to keep. Godfrey insists on accompanying the doctor to
Silas’ cottage. When the doctor comes out he declares that the woman has been dead for hours. Godfrey sees Silas holding the child and asks him if he intends to take the child to the parish. Silas replies that he wants to keep her, since both he and she are alone, and with out his gold he has nothing else to live for. He implies a connection between his lost money, ‘’gone, I don’t know where’’ and the baby ‘’come from I don’t know where.’’ Godfrey gives Silas money to buy clothes for the little girl and he tells himself that the girl might be happy without knowing him as her father.
Molly is given an anonymous pauper’s burial, but her death, the narrator notes will have great consequences for the inhabits of Raveloe. The villagers are surprised by Silas’s desire to keep the child, and once again they became more sympathetic toward him. Dolly is particularly helpful, offering advice, giving him clothing out grown by her own children, and helping to care and bathe the girl. Silas is grateful be makes clear that he wishes to do everything for himself, so that the little girl will be attached to him from the start. Silas remains amazed by the girl’s arrival and continues to think that in some way his gold has turned into the child. Dolly persuaded Silas to get himself and the baby baptized he does not want to at first but he does so and then they start to try and find a name for the baby, Silas suggests Hephzibah as it was his mothers and sister name. Dolly says that it is not a christened name and it is a little long. He also says that his sister was called Eppie for short.
Eppie and Silas are baptized together and Silas finds the child has brought him closer to the other villagers. Unlike his gold, which exacerbated his isolation and did not respond to his attentions, young Eppie is endlessly curious and demanding. Her desires and infectious and as she hungrily explores the world around her, so does Silas. Whereas his gold has driven him to stay indoors and work endlessly, Eppie tempts Silas away from his work to play outside, in the spring and summer when it is sunny. Silas takes Eppie to the fields and he sits to watch her play. Silas’s growth mirrors Eppie’s and he begins to explore memories and thoughts he has kept locked away for many years.
Eppie is reared without punishment as his punishments are ineffective. Silas is even reluctant to leave her with anyone else and, so takes her with him on his rounds to gather yarn. Eppie becomes an object of fascination and as a result so does Silas. Instead of looking at him with repulsion the townspeople now offer advice and encouragement. Even children who found Silas frightening take a liking to him. Silas
in turn takes an active interest in the town, wanting to give Eppie all that is good in the village. Moreover Silas no longer hoards his money. Since his gold was stolen, he has lost the sense of pleasure he once felt at counting and touching his savings. Now with Eppie, he realizes that he has found something greater. Godfrey kept a distant eye on Eppie. He gives her the occasional present but is careful not to betray too strong interest. He does not feel guilty about failing to claim her because he is confident that she is being taken care of well. Meanwhile Dunsey still has not returned.
The parallels between the novel’s two pivotal events are further developed in this section. Like the theft, Eppie’s arrival again drives Silas to interrupt a public gathering in a dramatic fashion, this time at the Red House rather than the Rainbow. Silas arrives both times with an otherworldly aura about him. Godfrey is as shocked as if he is seeing an ‘’apparition from the dead.’’ Both scenes emphasize Silas’s outsider status. The tavern is governed by rules of hierarchy and habit in which everyone relies on ‘’safe well-tested personalities.’’ In these comfortable, ritualized spaces, Silas’s entrances are as disrupted and disorienting as visits from a ghost. Silas, too, is understandably disoriented by the appearance of Eppie. He continues to associate her with his gold and believes, in a vague way, that his gold has somehow turned into her. In a way, of course, Silas’s connection is correct, as both the gold’s disappearance and Eppie’s appearance can be indirectly traced to Godfrey and his secret marriage. More importantly, the fact that Silas Equates Eppie with the gold indicates that she has effectively replaced his gold as the object of his affections.
However, whereas the gold isolated Silas, Eppie becomes a bridge between him and the rest of the world. Not only does she return his affection in a way that his guineas never could, but her interest and desire about the world ignite similar feelings in Silas. Eliot uses the weather as a signal of this change. Whereas Dunsey stole the money on a rainy night and Eppie appeared in a blizzard, the afternoons that Silas and Eppie share are sunny and warm. Also, Eliot once again uses a metaphor from the natural world to describe Silas’s growth. As he begins to come out of his isolation and self denial, Silas’s soul is likened to a metamorphosing butterfly or budding flower, unfolding and ‘’trembling gradually into full conscience.’’ Silas’s decisions to keep Eppie have great positive consequences for
him, bringing him companionship and redemption. The action recommences sixteen years later, as the Raveloe congregation flies out of church after a Sunday service. Silas Marner is in the departing congregation. His eyes have a more focussed look than before, but otherwise he looks quite old for a man of fifty-five. Eppie is eighteen and is quite pretty, walks beside Silas, while Aaron Winthrop follows them eagerly. Eppie tells Silas that she wants a garden and Aaron offers to dig it up for them. They decide that Aaron should come to their cottage to mark it out that afternoon, and that he should bring his mother, Dolly. Silas and Eppie return to the cottage, which has changed greatly since we last saw it. It has become more of a home with pets and a new room and now people regard Silas as an ‘’exceptional person.’’ A man even claims that Silas’s good deed of adopting Eppie will bring back the stolen gold someday. After dinner Silas goes out to smoke his pipe. He is smoking because people from the village have told him it is a remedy for his cataleptic fits.
Silas’s adoption of Raveloe customs such as smoking, the narrator writes is matched by a growing acknowledgment of his own past. Silas has been articulating his past to Dolly and Eppie. He has also told Eppie that he is not her father and also told her how she came to him at her mother’s death. She is not excessively troubled by the story and does not wonder about her father, as she judges Silas to be a better father than any in Raveloe. Silas and Eppie go outside and she informs him that she wants to marry Aaron; Silas conceals his misery as this news. Eppie also says that Aaron will get a house to live in if they get married. Eppie says she is reluctant, as she does not want her life to change at all. Silas says that they should speak to Dolly, who is Eppie’s godmother, about this matter. Meanwhile Godfrey and his wife are at the Red House. Godfrey goes on his walk and his wife is musing about their lack of children and the disappointment it has caused Godfrey. They did have one daughter but she died at birth. They have a suggestion to adopt but his wife resisted that suggestion, she wonders if she is right to resist that suggestion. She has been adamant in her resistance, insisting that that it is not right to seek something that Providence had withheld and predicting that an adopted child would inevitably turn out poorly.
Godfrey’s argument- that the adopted Eppie has turned out well- is of no use. Never consider that Silas might object, Godfrey has all along specified that if he and his wife were to adopt, they should adopt Eppie. Considering his childless home a retribution for failing to claim Eppie, Godfrey see adopting Eppie as a way of making up for his earlier fault. Godfrey comes back from his walk, trembling, and tells his wife that Dunsey’s skeleton has been found in the newly drained stone-pit behind Silas’s cottage. The body has been there for sixteen years and it is clear that Dunsey is the one stole Silas’s money. The money was found with Dunsey’s skeleton. Godfrey confesses him own confession that he was secretly married to Molly and Eppie is his daughter. Then his wife said if he told her before she would have adopted Eppie six years earlier. They then made plans to visit Silas’s cottage that evening. Silas’s transition into the community is completed by this point in the novel. Now he is not only a full member of the Raveloe community, but is universally considered its most exemplary citizen. The readers have also found out more about Silas as he has opened up to Eppie a lot.
Eppie and Silas sit in their cottage later that evening. Then some one knocks and Eppie opens the door to find that it is Godfrey Cass and his wife. Godfrey comes to claim Eppie as his daughter as he has no children and Silas becomes uneasy. Godfrey insists that he is Eppie’s father and he confesses it to her. Silas angrily retorts that, if this is the case, Godfrey should have claimed Eppie when she was a baby instead of waiting until Silas an Eppie had grown to love each other. Godfrey and Silas start an argument and Silas says that the decision is Eppie’s. Eppie says that she would rather stay with Silas. Then Godfrey and his wife return home and realize that Eppie’s decision is final. Then Godfrey accepts that Eppie will not come back. Then Silas and Eppie return back to Lantern Yard. They go back and they recognise nothing, everything is alien to them. No one knows what happened to all the inhabits. Every thing has become industrialized and nothing is familiar to them. Then Eppie and Aaron get married on a hot summer day.
