Simple. It goes like this. judgement and disapproval from his surrounding community resulting in many incidents of injustice and discrimination towards his character. “So had his way of life…
and he never strolled in to the village to drink a pint at the Rainbow.” Within the community of Raveloe the majority of the people strolled to the village for a drink, as this quote signifies Silas Marner did not do this, and because of this was viewed as different. In Raveloe, people were suspicious because they didn’t know where he came from. He did not socialize and he was a hard worker. We also come across the instance where some children kept coming up to Silas’ house and peeping in the window. When Silas Marner looked at them they would run away.
“he liked their intrusion so ill that he would fix on them a gaze that was always enough to make them take to their legs in terror.” The children did this because Marner was different. Throughout the book Silas had some fits. This was probably the main reason people though he was different. One instance was when Jem Rodney found Silas Marner having one of his fits. “He saw that Marner’s eyes were set like a dead mans.” In Lantern Yard, they thought his soul had left his body, “But there might be such a thing as a man’s soul being loose from his body, and going out and in, like a bird out of its nest and back.” Silas worked long and hard sitting at his loom. This may have been the cause of his appearance, his hunched back and pale eyes.
The Term Paper on Silas Marner Eliot Godfrey Eppie
... about groups of people you socialize with-don't they interact in typical roles like this SILAS MARNER: SETTING The opening of Silas Marner suggests a ... The following are major themes of Silas Marner. 1. LUCK AND FATE Are some people simply luckier than others Or is there an ...
“A pallid young man with prominent, short sighted brown eyes.” Another example of injustice within “Silas Marner” is the way the community he lives in, judge him. When a cobbler’s wife Sally Oates shows the symptoms of heart disease he offers her a remedy of foxglove remembering how this helped his mother. “Recalling the relief his mother had found from a simple prescription of foxglove.” When this cures her, there becomes a strong belief among everyone in the village that he has some sort of connection with the devil because of his healing power… There: )!
