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Silas marner is, in George Eliot's own words, 'a story of old-fashioned village life,whose words-wothian theme is the remedial influences of pure.natural human relations'. Long favourite among her novels and often regarded as a mere moral'faery-tale'. it contains, along with its genial humour and its mellow portraiture, many complex ironies and a great deal of pointed social criticism. Marner's spiritual death and his resurrection through the child Eppie and the neighbourliness of the village community have, as Mrs Leavis points out, 'a multiple typically'; through his caase are examined the dire effects of the Industrial Revolution and the rich human possibilities of a way of life that, even in george Eliot's lifetime, was passing away.
Silas marner is, in George Eliot's own words, 'a story of old-fashioned village life,whose words-wothian theme is the remedial influences of pure.natural human relations'. Long favourite among her novels and often regarded as a mere moral'faery-tale'. it contains, along with its genial humour and its mellow portraiture, many complex ironies and a great deal of pointed social criticism. Marner's spiritual death and his resurrection through the child Eppie and the neighbourliness of the village community have, as Mrs Leavis points out, 'a multiple typically'; through his caase are examined the dire effects of the Industrial Revolution and the rich human...
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