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Silas Marner by George Eliot6/28/2023 ![]() ![]() Rejuvenated by her presence, Marner decides to keep Eppie and to rear her. Then one winter night, as he stands stock-still in a trance, a strange woman freezes to death in the snow, and her child, Eppie, wanders into Marner’s home. There he works at his loom, his money accumulates, and gradually it becomes his sole reason for living.Īfter fifteen years Marner’s money is stolen, and this second blow threatens to destroy him altogether. He moves from Lantern Yard, the scene of the betrayal, to the village of Raveloe. ![]() In a part of the novel not reproduced here, the young Marner, then a religious man, suffers a shattering betrayal that destroys his faith. ![]() She beautifully represents, too, not just the duties parents and children bear toward one another, but also the blessings that flow to each from meeting these obligations. In telling his story, Eliot explores the part of parenthood that transcends a biological connection. In the course of the novel, Marner is “saved” from his dismal fate by the arrival of a child. George Eliot’s Silas Marner is the story of an isolated and suffering miser, a weaver named Marner. ![]()
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