Her father supported her education because she was considered not attractive physically but was indeed intelligent and due to her father’s considerable prestige, she had access to a library that embarked the foundation of her writing career. George Eliot was the pen name of Mary Anne Evans(1819-1880) who was a famous novelist, poet, journalist, translator of the Victorian era. Silas goes to Lantern Yard a few days later, and still later Eppie is married and they lived happily together. Dunstan is found dead and Silas’ gold is recovered. Several events occur, like Dunstan’s disappearance, Godfrey’s relationship to Eppie and Eppie’s future. Sixteen years are then jumped over, and the results of the early events are seen. The events upto the New Year’s take up the first portion of the book. The time then skips quickly to its original point. Silas lives in his lonely existence at Raveloe, the period which is followed by a flashback to the time fifteen years earlier when he was driven from the lantern yard. Tragedy strikes him again when the gold he has been hoarding for so many years is stolen by the evil Dunstan Cass. He becomes a tragic figure when he has to flee from his hometown. Set in the nineteenth century in England, the entire story line revolves around the life of a miserly weaver.

You will have to check out this novel to find the ultimate fate of Silas Marner! What will be the ultimate end of this weaver? Will he survive or turn his path towards sin? Will he ever get accepted by society or the misery will continue? He is not losing faith and hopes because is penniless but the fact that he is alienated from his hometown just because of the superstitious nature of the society is what 's killing him inside. Silas Marner, a miserly weaver, not because he is really poor or wealth less but he is thrown out of his own society and his own people. A miserable life is the product of the lack of wealth and status in the society but there can be other elements that can cause misery in one’s life. We always perceive that being poor is the ultimate cause of misery in one’s life.

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