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Examine the Presentation of the Child in "Silas Marner

Her adaptability in coming to Silas" cottage is put down to the "ready transition of infancy" and her innocence parallels her association with nature: she is like a "new hatched gosling" there. .
             This innocence is connected to children in the book. Eliot shows Eppie to be so innocent that she cannot be punished. Even when Silas puts her in the coal chamber for a few minutes, she seems to enjoy it and goes back in of her own accord a few days later. This also relates back to Wordsworth's ideas in his poems. His idea is that children have a "visionary gleam" that is lost when we grow up. .
             Eppie turning up in Silas's cottage just when his gold has been stolen is significant because he thinks at first that she is his gold, because he cannot see her properly and then he believes that she has been sent to replace his gold. Her "golden curls" symbolically represent the money that Silas had lost. At first Eppie looks like being just another commodity for Silas. The way in which he snatches her back from Godfrey at the dance illustrates this well. He refers to Eppie as "it" as if she were a bag of gold. However, as the novel progresses she does more than replace the gold in his affections, and as he learns to love her he forgets about the money. This contrasted with Godfrey who is constantly trying to get rid of his guilt about the child. He offers material goods instead of the real love that he should have for her. His half-heartedness is exposed when he only gives "half -a-guinea" to Silas for Eppie's clothes.
             When Silas decides that he can look after Eppie his youth suddenly comes back to him. We can see this clearly by the name he gives her: Hepzibah which means "My Delight is in her". This was also the name of his mother and sister and is clearly significant as she at last gives him someone to love. This is the first mention of Silas" youth; his "visionary gleam" has come back to him. He had been reborn and through Eppie returns to church, initially to have Eppie christened.


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