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Silas Marner Quotes Table of Contents AP English Language AP
English Literature SAT Test Prep ACT Exam Prep Silas Marner
Themes Little Words, Big Ideas Money makes the world go round—or
does it? Is wealth the gold you can bury under your bed (or
stash in an offshore account), or is it a pile of warm curls
under your hand? Silas Marner answer tha... Where there's
wealth, there's greed. But in Silas Marner, the greed, like the
wealth, isn't quite where you expect it to be. Silas may have
all the money, but, if greed means a selfish desire to ac...
Eliot evidently never got the memo re: not talking about
religion, because Silas Marner is one God-rumination after
another, exploring several different ways of thinking about
religion. A little hi... Silas begins the book fully part of his
Lantern-Yard group and then spends the next fifteen years living
alone in a cottage, rejecting anyone's attempt to bring him into
village life. If we think o... Ravel