The feelings of 《Silas Marner》
George Eliot was one of the most famous
novelists in Britain. Silas Marner is one of her most admired and loved works,
in which she remind us to cherish the most valuable thing in the world –love.
Though it was a short story about a linen weaver and an orphan Eppie , it is
popular and moving.
In the early years of the nineteenth century, the
numbers of linen weavers in the English countryside was increasingly growing
.The weavers were weak, pale, and hunchbacked because of years of hard work, so
the villages all regarded them as wireds. Living in loneliness and quietness,
Marner worked day and night at his loom in a lonely cottage near the village of
Raveloe. Marner’s past was full of sadness. Once he lived in Raveloe and
belonged to a religious group. His best friend, William, who he trusted most,
framed a case against Marner and at last he was driven out of Raveloe. Low in
spirit, he didn’t trust his friends any more, and shut himself away in his
cottage, starting to live in a dark world.
Once a person lost his belief
in something that he trusted very much before, he had to find another thing that
he could believe in to support his mental life .As he spent more time in
working, he earned more and more gold coins. Gradually his gold became his
reason for living, almost religion. He treasured them so much not because his
was greedy about money, but he was so lonely that he could only regard money as
his friends. He was rich ,but he had never shown it off in front of others or do
some bad deeds by using his gold, which reflected that in fact he had a kind
heart .
The Squire Cass was the most important and rich person in
Raveloe, who had two sons—Dustan and Godfrey. Godfrey fall in love with Molly
and was cajoled by Dunstan into marrying her .It was not long before he found he
didn’t love Molly at all and regretted marrying her. He was afraid to tell his
father about this matter because Squire Cass would be angry and disinherit him
and for the purpose of keeping it a secret he had to give money to Dunstan, who
was always asking for money from others. One day when he passed by the house of
Marner, his greed caused him to steal the gold coins .Then he disappeared in the
village. At that time, Slias didn’t know his fate began to change. In The days
after his gold was stolen, he had nothing to forward to because the only thing
that made his life worth living had gone. But one night, he found a gift that
god sent him near his house --a little girl. Her mother happened to be Molly,
who was Godfrey’s first wife. No one knew the parents of the baby and Godfrey
couldn’t bring himself to say the truth, so she became an orphan. Considering
she would be as lonely as him, Silas felt sympathy about her, and decided to
adopt her. He named her Eppie .from that time on, he had been living a totally
different life. When he had another reason for living, his days became happy and
full. At last, it turned out to be that it was Dunstan who stolen the money, but
Marner didn’t care, for he had found the real gold in his life—love. Eppie’s
real parents went to her and promised her a lot of money, she refused to leave
Silas to live a more comfortable life,which gave all of them a big surprise .It
was a world mastered by love not by money.
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