Silas Marner was written in 1861 at the time of the expansion of the British Empire and the industrial revolution. This was the time when Britain and its people got richer and richer because of big businesses, this book reflects on that and it says that money is not the only thing that matters because in most cases money only brings more grief and problems and it can ruin a life, and no matter how much money a person had it could never buy him pleasure except the self satisfaction

“He had contracted the habit of opening his door and looking out from time to time, as if he thought that money might be somehow coming back to him”

Silas is now a complete soul again but this time not only by the gold but also by love.

she says she’ll never leave me, I think I shall trusten till I die.

Silas’s gold has now been replaced by the child. And insisting on keeping Eppie makes Silas start making friends to get thing and buy clothes go Eppie. A woman named Dolly helps Silas look after Eppie and after Dolly asked him to get Eppie christened; he does and his regular attendance to the Church now gets him more friends. Eppie is Silas’s gold restored in a different form this idea is reinforced by the fact that her hair is blonde and at first sight Silas actually thought she was the gold and that his gold was taken away as mysteriously as it was returned. Eppie is like a gift from God that gives Silas back all that he had lost, he gets his real gold back; he finds satisfaction in the fact that Eppie prefers Silas then her real blood father and that the once outcast is now a respected member of the town.

The themes of the story are based around love, money and redemption. Silas Marner is accused of murdering the oldest deacon of the Church and stealing his money, he later discovers he was framed by his best friend William Dane, he loses his faith in God, he believes that God has let him down by not proving his innocence he soon loses his fiancé and leaves town. He moves to town called Raveloe where he does not ma

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