Silas Marner: A Moralistic Work In Silas Marner by George Eliot the moral themes are relative of the current social issues of the Victorian Era and play a crucial formitive role in the development of individual characters. Eliot's introduction of realism in literature, "an approach that attempts to describe life without idealization or romantic subjectivity" creates the natural appeal of the characters in the novel. "Realism has been chiefly concerned with the commonplace of everyday …showed first 75 words of 2579 total…

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