![]() ![]() When Silas stops working to care for his church’s aging deacon, he is accused of stealing the congregation’s money. Silas belongs to a low-church Christian sect, a close, insular Calvinist congregation that espouses predestination, the belief that some people are predestined to be saved while others are predestined to be damned, regardless of their actions on Earth. ![]() In the early nineteenth century, Silas Marner is a weaver in Lantern Yard, a small, rundown neighborhood in Northern England. The novel follows a wronged working man’s evolution from isolated miser to someone who forms meaningful connections with a community after unexpectedly becoming a father. Exploring the ways industrialization and capitalism warp human ethics, how uplifting religious faith can be transformed into destructively blind belief, and the redemptive value of human connection, the novel is written in Eliot’s trademark empathetic and unvarnished realism. Celebrated Victorian novelist George Eliot (the penname of Mary Anne Evans) published her third novel, Silas Marner, in 1861. ![]()
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