... characters. Eliot's conception of realism in literature, is due largely to his styles use of descriptions, places readers in the novel. Eliot evokes the pastoral English countryside "in the days when he spinning-wheels hummed busily in the farmhouses." of the early nineteenth century, emphasizing Raveloe's isolation from other towns, an isolation causes the town's people to embrace belief system that is distant and alien. In "Silas Marner ... ," Eliot is therefore describing a lost world, and part of his purpose in the novel are to evoke what ... he feels has been lost. The main characte...

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