Silas Marner By George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans) (1819 – 1880) Essay, Research Paper

Eliot’s Silas Marner is replete with religious

overtones, class divisions, and interwoven human emotions. Life-mysteries

such as luck and fate are examined. The contrast between Silas’ urban home

in Lantern Yard – pushed aside by the Industrial Revolution – and the bustling

village of Raveloe, representing an unchanging, personable and rural society,

shows Eliot’s obvious preference.

George Eliot’s real name was Mary Ann Evans.

An intellectual, she lived in 19th-century scandal with a married man,

who urged her to write fiction. Evans wrote under…

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