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"The fotunes of Silas Marner" by George Eliot.
Title: "The fotunes of Silas Marner" by George Eliot.
Category: Literature / European Literature
Details: Words: 1719 | Pages: 7.3 (approximately 235 words/page)
"The fotunes of Silas Marner" by George Eliot.
A Study into the Fortunes of Silas Marner.
George Eliot wrote Silas Marner in 1861. It is set in a time before the Industrial Revolution, a world that our society is unaware of. It is in a time where cloth was made at home in a weaver's cottage, rather than in large factories of mass production. Silas is a cottage weaver.
Silas Marner's fortunes throughout the book are many and varied. Although throughout the story he …showed first 75 words of 1719 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1719 total…introduced to at the beginning of this book. Silas ends up a man that 'had brought a blessing on himself by acting like a father to a lone, motherless child'. This story shows that good can come out of misfortune and hope can come out of despair. As Wordsworth once said:
'A child, more than all other gifts
That earth can offer a declining man,
Brings hope with it, and forward-looking thoughts'.
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