Moral Destiny

• SILAS 'it was a sleeping child - a round fair thing, with soft yellow rings all over its head' - silas


  chapter 12, silas marner receives the rewards for having a loving family member when he encounters eppie and adopts her instead of giving her away to the work house
• SILAS 'the money was taken away from me in time; and you see it's been kept-kept till it was wanted for you' AND ' the child had come to link him once again with the whole world' - silas


  this appears in the end of the book and the second quote is found in chapter 14, both times Sila's world has taken a turn, because at the end he experiences a nice life with lots of abundance and love and a good relationship between him and eppie, in chapter 14, it is the same thing, he builds bonds with eppie as he is raising her
• SILAS 'was it a thief...or was it a cruel power that no hands can reach, which had delighted in making him a second time desolate?' - silas


  this appears in chapter 5, the chapter after dunstan cass had stolen silas' money and had also staked godfrey's wildfire. this shows silas' loss and although it shows loss and the unjust that silas' has been through, it is later contrasted to show moral destiny that what goes around comes around to dunstan, and it also shows that he had to lose something to receive something special that he truly deserved
• SILAS 'he had brought a blessing on himself by acting like a father to a lone motherless child' - silas


  - conclusion this shows that what he gives will eventually come around. this also disproved the beginning of the noevl where he was shown to be an awful charcater who supposedly 'stole and lied', this shows that at the end of the novel thta silas is proven to be a person that deserved this blessing additionally making up for all those sufferings and innocent setbacks he has experienced.
• LY 'Lantern Yard's gone...heres the house with the o'erhanging window...see that big factory!It's all gone- chapel and all' - silas


  - this shows that people of LY were unfair to Silas and had taken everything he once knew away from him, this was a place that was not meant to last, but it also shows that the chapel has been replaced by the factory, it shows how the most important things of LY was taken away just like how silas' most important things were taken away from him (love, faith and relationships)
• DUNSTAN 'my brother Dunstan, that we lost sight of sixteen years ago. We've found him - found his body - his skeleton' - godfrey cass


  • this is found in chapter 18 this shows a form of like justice that has placed itself upon dunstan as a consequence to all the actions that he has done. this is showing how moral destiny (karma) has placed itself on him by making him drown in quarry lakes
• DUNSTAN 'there's my gold-handled hunting-whip, with my name on: he took it away, without my knowing' - godfrey cass


  • chapter 18 this shows moral destiny as it shows a karma that is broughtto dunstan resulting in his death and his broken relationship between him and godfrey still. this could be because of his action of blackmailer and stealing from Godfrey and Silas. a punishment like lantern yards where relationships are broken and how it fails to stand as all these evil is eventually eradicated.
• GODFREY 'the woman might not be dead. That was an evil terror - an ugly inmate to have found a nestling-place in Godfrey's kindly disposition'


  • chapter 13 this shows how Godfrey's secret of his secret marriage and child would lead to moral destiny choosing him to not be able to have any kids with Nancy
• GODFREY 'the adopted child she was convinced woul never turn out well' - nancy


  -chapter 17, it shows how his unjust decision and actions would cause him to suffer as nancy is unable to birth a child - lead to miscarriage, it also shows that he is unable to even adopt a child because nancy is unkeen on the idea
• GODFREY 'its part of my punishment, Nancy, for my daughter to dislike me. I should never have got into that trouble if I'd been true to you' - godfrey cass


  • chapter 20 this shows moral destiny - what goes around comes around, it also shows that bad/poor actions do have equally painful consequences
• AARON 'it's Aaron Winthrop she meant she was engaged to'


  • chapter 20, this shows positive moral destiny - how going to church with his mother and his faith and honesty has led him to marry the prettiest girl he met, that he never thought would have happened