“Man, I Feel Like A Woman.”: The Gender Binary System in Victorian England Victorian England is not as grand as it seems. The rules of society put pressure both on men and women to conform to these strict and restraining statutes. After reading Silas Marner by George Eliot, (Mary Ann Evans), it became clear. Silas was looked down upon because he single-handedly raised a child. This was a breakthrough in the gender barrier. Silas was also excommunicated from his former village Lantern Yard. Due to this crisis, Silas isolates himself completely from his new village; of Raveloe. "This strangely novel situation of opening his trouble to his Raveloe neighbours, of sitting in the warmth of a hearth not his own, and feeling the presence of faces
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However, in Silas Marner, what comes around goes around. The phrase “Why do bad things happen to good people?” is flipped; “Why do bad things happen to bad people?” Dunstan steals all of Silas’s money, causing Silas to have a breakdown. Dunstan also kills the prized horse Wildfire; but karma saw that. Eventually all of this catches up to Dunstan when he falls into the pit with Silas’s money and dies. “Dunstan steals Silas's gold and Godfrey refuses to "own" his daughter--and, consequently, they "pay" for their mistakes. Characters are also rewarded; Silas gains both the girl and the gold, thereby making him a social and an economic success. The later novel, however, takes a distinctly different stance towards the distribution of rewards and, …show more content…
Days turn into months and months turn into years, and we don’t give much thought at all. This statement does apply to a section of Silas Marner. “Together, weaving and hoarding constitute a practice of disavowal, which sustains belief in the absence of knowledge. If weaving records the swiftness and emptiness of time, with its indifference to the individual life, hoarding creates a temporal rhythm that fantastically repairs a sense of time's presence the body's creative utility and the particularity of the loved object” (Brown 244). Time passes by very quickly in the novel. There is a flashback and then it flashes forward. When I read this article, I realized that time really does fly when you do what you love. For Silas, at first it was weaving and collecting all his gold. That was before Eppie came along. Raising Eppie made time fly even faster for Silas. In the book we see her age to a fine young woman. Eppie wants to marry her love, Aaron; but she is afraid to leave her father. Silas and Eppie have formed an unbreakable bond and the strongest love. Silas raised Eppie to become a good woman, we know this because she would choose staying and taking care of her father over getting
However, in Silas Marner, what comes around goes around. The phrase “Why do bad things happen to good people?” is flipped; “Why do bad things happen to bad people?” Dunstan steals all of Silas’s money, causing Silas to have a breakdown. Dunstan also kills the prized horse Wildfire; but karma saw that. Eventually all of this catches up to Dunstan when he falls into the pit with Silas’s money and dies. “Dunstan steals Silas's gold and Godfrey refuses to "own" his daughter--and, consequently, they "pay" for their mistakes. Characters are also rewarded; Silas gains both the girl and the gold, thereby making him a social and an economic success. The later novel, however, takes a distinctly different stance towards the distribution of rewards and, …show more content…
Days turn into months and months turn into years, and we don’t give much thought at all. This statement does apply to a section of Silas Marner. “Together, weaving and hoarding constitute a practice of disavowal, which sustains belief in the absence of knowledge. If weaving records the swiftness and emptiness of time, with its indifference to the individual life, hoarding creates a temporal rhythm that fantastically repairs a sense of time's presence the body's creative utility and the particularity of the loved object” (Brown 244). Time passes by very quickly in the novel. There is a flashback and then it flashes forward. When I read this article, I realized that time really does fly when you do what you love. For Silas, at first it was weaving and collecting all his gold. That was before Eppie came along. Raising Eppie made time fly even faster for Silas. In the book we see her age to a fine young woman. Eppie wants to marry her love, Aaron; but she is afraid to leave her father. Silas and Eppie have formed an unbreakable bond and the strongest love. Silas raised Eppie to become a good woman, we know this because she would choose staying and taking care of her father over getting