A Study into the Fortunes of Silas Marner. George Eliot wrote Silas Marner in 1861. It is set in a time before the Industrial Revolution, a world that our society is unaware of. It is in a time where cloth was made at home in a weaver's cottage, rather than in large factories of mass production. Silas is a cottage weaver. Silas Marner's fortunes throughout the book are many and varied. Although throughout the story he …showed first 75 words of 1716 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1716 total…introduced to at the beginning of this book. Silas ends up a man that 'had brought a blessing on himself by acting like a father to a lone, motherless child'. This story shows that good can come out of misfortune and hope can come out of despair. As Wordsworth once said: 'A child, more than all other gifts That earth can offer a declining man, Brings hope with it, and forward-looking thoughts'. written by Nettles