ENG324Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Silas Marner, Fairy Tale, Industrial Revolution
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George eliot is a pen name in order to be taken more seriously. Her works tend to depict rural english life. Full title: silas marner: the weaver of raveloe. Eliot"s third novel, last of her rustic novels the city and the country are sharply contrasted. Eliot asks her readers to reconsider (sometimes directly through her omniscient realist narrator) the value they place on isolated urban individualism over the communality of rural societies. Believed in writing novels about mundane people were the most interesting people to write about. A highly conventional mode of writing that celebrates the innocent life of shepherds in poems, plays, and prose. Describes the loves and sorrows of musical shepherds, usually in an idealized golden. It is an elaborately artificial cult of simplicity and virtuous frugality. The epigraph: a child, more than all other gifts that earth can offer to declining man brings hope with it, and forward-looking thoughts ironic in the context of.
