silas quotes

• "god will clear me"


  initial full trust in god, emphasises betrayal later on
• "the anguish of disappointed faith"


  lots immediately made him feel betrayed
• "there is no god but a god of lies"


  not only numbed sense of faith, but hatred
• "silas marner's benumbed faith"
• "silas spent christmas day in loneliness"


  christmas is a holiday of togetherness, little detail evoking emotion
• "it was what i held by me when everything else was gone"


  feeling of abandonment/isolation replaced with gold
• (his moneys') "bright face"


  replacing human relationships/contact with gold
• "he seemed to weave like a spider from pure impulse"


  isolation from others dehumanises him, pure dedication to working
• "he sat in the loneliness of his dull fire"


  hearth = family, which is dull due to lack of
• "it (money) takes no hold on me now"


  eppie worth more than gold is to him
• "his large brown eyes seemed to have gathered a longer vision"


  eppie acted as a bridge into a higher quality of life, more reason to live
• "would rather part with his life than eppie"


  shows how important eppie is to him now, life wouldn't be worth living
• "hurt and uneasy"


  memory of abandonment when godfrey asks for eppie back
• "a strong habit of that new self"


  evident character development since eppie
• "the sight of the empty hole made his heart leap violently"
• "trembling more and more"


  shock is having a physical effect on him
• "he spread them out in heaps and bathed his hands in them"
• "money had stood to him as the symbol of earthly good"


  not about wealth, but good values and seems better than faith
• "the weaver's hand had known the touch of hard won money before the palm had grown to it's full breadth"


  attachment to money from an early age
• "unborn children"


  references parental love of a child, human relationship with something inhuman
• silas doesn't lean towards money out of greed, but lack of compassion and relationships