Help with silas marner *emergency*?

Question

I need in detailed contrasting silas` love for money and his relationship with god


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Answer 1

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"This novel, Silas Marner, is the story of the miraculous healing and redemption of Silas Marner, a weaver. Silas was a broken, closed, selfish, unhappy hermit, with a hoard of money. In his isolation, he shared nothing, neither his goods nor his being. His sad, inadequate life worsened when he was robbed of his money. One night, during a bad snowstorm, a woman and her small child struggled, on foot, on the road near Silas’s cottage. Exhausted and freezing, the child’s mother collapsed and died. The child, desperate, frightened and alone, crawled into Silas’ cottage, and simultaneously crawled into his life. Silas took this child as his own daughter. He adopted her and named her Eppie. He viewed this child not as a burden but as a gift and a blessing. He cared for her, raised her, and loved her. This child, Eppie, transformed Silas Marner into a fulfilled and whole human being. The novelist, George Eliot, showed in fiction, in literature, that it was only by fathering and by love that Silas could shed his past wounds and failures, and be restored. In this transformation, he found meaning for his life, his redemption. George Eliot wrote:

"Silas might be seen in the sunny mid-day, … strolling out … to carry Eppie … till they reached some favourite bank where he could sit down, while Eppie toddled to pluck the flowers, and make remarks to the winged things that murmured happily above the bright petals., calling ‘Dad-dad’s’ attention continually by bringing him the flowers."

About Silas’s regeneration and rebirth, George Eliot continued:

"As the child’s mind was growing into knowledge, his mind was growing into memory: as her life unfolded, his soul, long stupefied in a cold narrow prison, was unfolding too, and trembling gradually into full consciousness."

The novelist had Silas tell his daughter Eppie:

"If you hadn’t been sent to save me, I should ha’ gone to the grave in my misery."

I end now with George Eliot’s most beautiful description of Silas Marner’s transformation and redemption through fatherhood by the love and care of this child, Eppie and her love of him, her father. Eliot wrote:

"In old days there were angels who came and took men by the hand and led them away from the city of destruction. We see no white-winged angels now. But yet men are led away from threatening destruction: a hand is put into theirs, which leads them forth gently towards a calm and bright land, so that they look no more backward; and the hand may be a little child’s."

I repeat, the hand of a child can lead men from the city of destruction."


"The title character, Silas is a solitary weaver who, at the time we meet him, is about thirty-nine years old and has been living in the English countryside village of Raveloe for fifteen years. Silas is reclusive and his neighbors in Raveloe regard him with a mixture of suspicion and curiosity. He spends all day working at his loom and has never made an effort to get to know any of the villagers. Silas’s physical appearance is odd: he is bent from his work at the loom, has strange and frightening eyes, and generally looks much older than his years. Because Silas has knowledge of medicinal herbs and is subject to occasional cataleptic fits, many of his neighbors speculate that he has otherworldly powers.

Despite his antisocial behavior, however, Silas is at heart a deeply kind and honest person. At no point in the novel does Silas do or say anything remotely malicious and, strangely for a miser, he is not even particularly selfish. Silas’s love of money is merely the product of spiritual desolation, and his hidden capacity for love and sacrifice manifests itself when he takes in and raises Eppie.
Silas’s outsider status makes him the focal point for the themes of community, religion, and family that Eliot explores in the novel. As an outcast who eventually becomes Raveloe’s most exemplary citizen, Silas serves as a study in the relationship between the individual and the community. His loss and subsequent rediscovery of faith demonstrate both the difficulty and the solace that religious belief can bring. Additionally, the unlikely domestic life that Silas creates with Eppie presents an unconventional but powerful portrait of family and the home.
Though he is the title character of the novel, Silas is by and large passive, acted upon rather than acting on others. Almost all of the major events in the novel demonstrate this passivity. Silas is framed for theft in his old town and, instead of proclaiming his innocence, puts his trust in God to clear his name. Similarly, Dunsey’s theft of Silas’s gold and Eppie’s appearance on Silas’s doorstep—rather than any actions Silas takes of his own accord—are the major events that drive the narrative forward. Silas significantly diverges from this pattern of passivity when he decides to keep Eppie, thereby becoming an agent of his eventual salvation."

"Silas Marner was a miser, a very ill-tempered miser at that. He lived for nothing but the hoarding of his money. As Eliot described him: "So year after year, Silas Marner had lived in this solitude, his guineas rising in the iron pot, and his life narrowing and hardening itself more and more into a mere pulsation of desire and satisfaction that had no relation to any other being."

But, then, if you remember the story, Marner's money was stolen and the man's life, as a consequence, was utterly shattered. But when he thought that his life had no longer any purpose or reason to it he found an abandoned little girl and took her in and cared for her. Such a strange combination: this old, solitary, bitter man and this little child. But over time, as Eliot weaves her wonderful story, the child changes the man and brings happiness to him and a sense of purpose and fulfillment that his gold had never and could never have given him.

The climax of the story comes when, sixteen years later, Marner's gold is recovered. But now he looks at it in a completely different light. Now it is not to hoard but to give to his beloved daughter who is about to be married. As Silas says to Eppie: "The money was taken away from me in time; and you see it's been kept - till it was wanted for you. The money takes no hold of me now, the money doesn't. I wonder if it ever could again - [but] it might, if I lost you, Eppie. I might come to think I was forsaken again, and lose the feeling that God was good to me [if I lost you]."

Try the fourth and fifth links, too.

Answer 2

Just use a sweatshirt or your back pack to cover up and call your mom. I'm very sorry, I remember how awful high school was, but these things happen. Just cover up somehow and get to a place where you can call someone. To to the nurse if you have to, it may still be embarrassing but shell understand and nobody else will find out. Good luck. I know how awful you're feeling. It will be ok