![]() ![]() ![]() Silas realizes that it is his own longtime friend, William Dane, who has framed him and has probably stolen the money himself. The first comes after Silas, a young man with a good life in a faithful parish, is falsely accused of a robbery. ![]() To me it’s clear that his faith is restored, not in a child, but through a child. I looked up the passages in the novel that refer directly to his faith, and have listed them below. There may be disagreement about what happened to his faith. I think Silas did recover his faith by the end of the novel, though online I have seen comments to the effect that he comes to have faith, not in God, but in a child.Įveryone agrees that Silas’ adoption of Eppie changes him greatly. When Silas takes in Eppie, he had long since abandoned his old faith in God, having been betrayed by his old friends and community. Anyone can see why such a story would be regarded as a story of faith, even a Christian story, though Eliot herself was not a believer. George Eliot’s novel tells of a miser who hoards gold and is redeemed by taking in and raising an orphaned child. Did the miser, Silas Marner, recover his faith in God? ![]()
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