What Bible verses can you relate to the story of Silas Marner?

Answer 1

Silas was also betrayed by a beloved friend, so you could relate it to Judas' betrayal of Jesus.

Answer 2

Remember that this story is Grade 7 to Grade 10 levels and the beautiful prose, associations might be lost to this age group. Older young adults in university who reread it can find biblical iundercurrents, recalling especially the stories of Job, King David, the expulsion from Eden, and Cain and Abel.

The author of Silas Marner expects readers to understand its many references to ancient mythology including the Fates and Arachne (a weaver transformed into a spider--note the profusion of insect imagery describing Marner). The hearth, where Eppie is suddenly found, is an especially powerful image in Roman myth.

The story tweaks the class differences in preindustrial setting of 19th century England where the author had lived, and she had pointed the sitting arrangement in the church where the gentry sits in the pews for important people and the ordinary folks sat in the back..