town VS country

• EPPIE 'O father I'm like I was stifled, said Eppie. I coldn't ha' thought as any folks lived i' this way, so close together.'

  • chapter 21 - Eppie is a symbol of nature and this is shown in chapter 21 where eppie and silaas visit lantern yard again to find everything in lantern yard has modernised. this is a place that chokes off life - shown by eppie and Ravaloe is a better place
• VILLAGERS 'Raveloe lay low among the bushy trees and rutted lanes, aloof from the currents of industrial energy'

  • Chapter 3, the adjective 'aloff' means distant , showing that industrial items are far from the ravaloe standards
  • it also shows how Ravaloe is shaded from industrial revolution by nature, containing its 'purity'
• VILLAGERS 'in this way it came to pass that those scattered linen weavers- emigrants from the town into the country- were to the last regarded as aliens by their rustic neighbours'

  • Chapter 1, Linen weavers were shown to be alien and the way linen were made was different because of the industrial revolution
• NARRATOR 'certain pallid undersized men, who by the side of the brawny Country-folk, looked like the remnants of a disinherited race'

  • Chapter 1, The different in men are compared in towns and country men like those in Ravaloe, Ravaloe men are described as small and pallid whereas town workers are stronger
• SILAS 'not that the idea of being robbed presented itself often or strongly to his mind: hoarding was common in country districts in those days' - silas marner

  • Chapter 2, This reflected in the lives of town and country workers, there was a lot more harding and crime rates were high in towns of industrial revolution whereas country men were much safer
• SILAS 'we're making their way through the streets of a great manufacturing town...silas bewildered by the changes thirty years had brought to his native place'

  • It shows how industrial revolution is changing the appearance of towns such as Lantern Yard
  • Chapter 21
• VILLAGERS 'unknown region called North'ard'

  • This shows the prejudice of different people from towns and versus countryside.
  • It shows the ignorance of the Ravaloe villagers as they refuse to acknowledge Silas origin place that is not their own.
  • Chapter 1