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Silas Marner Study Guide

by George Eliot

Silas Marner study guide contains a biography of George Eliot, literature essays, a complete e-text, quiz questions, major themes, characters, and a full summary and analysis.

Silas Marner, a weaver, is an eager and promising young member of a Puritan religious community, Lantern Yard. Marner's supposed best friend, Willam Dane, frames him for the theft of a pouch of coins. Marner suffers from cataleptic fits which leave him as insensible as stone and vulnerable to Dane's frame-up. The community of Lantern Yard draws lots to determine Marner's guilt or innocence in the crime. After the lots proclaim Marner guilty, he flees from Lantern Yard, utterly crushed, leaving behind his faith in God and in humankind.

Marner eventually settles at the outskirts of Raveloe, a provincial village in the English Midlands. The villagers appreciate Marner's trade but find him strange and unapproachable. Marner seems to have…

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• Silas Marner Summary
• About Silas Marner
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• Major Themes
• Summary and Analysis of Part One, Chapters 1-2
• Summary and Analysis of Part One, Chapters 3-5
• Summary and Analysis of Part One, Chapters 6-8
• Summary and Analysis of Part One, Chapters 9-11
• Summary and Analysis of Part One, Chapters 12-15
• Summary and Analysis of Part Two, Chapters 16-17
• Summary and Analysis of Part Two, Chapters 18-20
• Summary and Analysis of Part Two, Chapter 21 and Conclusion
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