George Eliot Essays

Mary Anne Evans was born in 1819 near Aubrey, the youngest child of the local priest Robert Evans, she was highly educated and first developed her career writing pieces for Blackwoods magazine and went on to write her first book in that was a translation of Strauss’s life of Christ in 1846. Being a determined […]

‘Silas Marner’ was published in 1861, when the whole of England had been undergoing many changes. In Eliot’s opinion, these changes were definitely for the worse. Eliot herself was raised on a large country estate in Warwickshire. She had also, however, visited a number of towns and industrialised areas as she travelled. This gave her […]

In this essay I will be concentrating on the theme of an outsider. The theme of an outsider is an important one in George Eliot’s ‘Silas Marner’ because it is a story about a man who is alienated from his community because he is different, a social misfit “In that far-off time superstition clung easily […]

Silas Marner is a moral fable written by the Mary-Ann Evans under the pen name of George Eliot. It was published in 1861. It tells the story of the ways of an estranged old weaver, his struggles through life and society, descendence to and emancipation from mental slavery, desolation of faith, and human nature. Essentially, […]

Latern Yard and Ravloe were two different towns, religiously and socially. People in Latern Yard were more religious and less friendly, but in the other hand Ravloe was less Religious but friendly. In Latern Yard the church played an important part in the people’s life, it was like the heart of the town. Silas had […]

Heraclitus was a Greek philosopher who maintained that strife and change are natural conditions of the universe. I am interested in philosophy and when reading recently about Heraclitus it came to mind that his “Logos,” theory reminded me very much of George Eliot’s writing style! It seems odd to parallel the teachings of a Greek […]

In Week 1, Professor Sally Shuttleworth delves into Middlemarch and the Victorian Period. The novel was written shortly after the passing of the second Reform Bill and is set during the time of the first. Looking back to the 1830s from the early 1870s, George Eliot explores prominent issues of the Victorian age such as […]

”Silas Marner” was written by the established and contemporary author George Eliot (alias Mary Anne Evans) in the mid 19th century. The book however, is set in the early 1800s. During the time Eliot was writing this book England was changing – there was a growing population; rapid industrialisation and many people were moving from […]

George Eliot, the author of Silas Marner became dubious about her religious faith. This lack of faith is reflected in the absence of religious importance in Raveloe. The strong beliefs of Eliot’s father and brother are similar to that of Dolly Winthrop’s who, in relatively unreligious surroundings, is religious herself. The writing of prose allowed […]

A great deal is significant about the way George Eliot portrayed women’s rights in the 19th century in her novel Silas Marner. For example Mary Ann Evans had to take alias of George Eliot to hide her true identity and gender to be taken seriously as an author. She lived with a man but couldn’t […]

After vigilant investigation I have accomplished an understanding that the theme “duty” in the novel Silas Marner has a big impact and means very much. Duty is the moral obligation, which is due. In the novel there are various links to do with duty and the main characters all had a duty to fulfill. Silas […]

Throughout Silas Marner a variety of different settings are used to create a location for the events that are taking place in the novel to happen. A common example of a setting used at numerous points in the novel is Silas Marner’s stone cottage. Eliot uses setting in many ways: symbolism can be shown, for […]

Silas Marner began his life in a ‘little hidden world known to itself as the church assembly in Lantern Yard. ‘ Silas was a valuable member of this ‘narrow religious sect’, who showed great devotion to God and compassion towards his neighbours. However, due to unfair accusations and the betrayal he felt from both God […]