Silas Marner Characters Flashcards
Raveloe
“where many of the old echoes lingered, undrowned by new voices”
“simple Raveloe theology”
“vague fear”
“he invited no comer to step across his doorsill and he never strolled into the village to drink a pint at the Rainbow”
“Where did Master Marner get his knowledge of herbs from?”
“Marner’s inward life had become a history and a metamorphosis”
“nothing could be more unlike his native town”
“set the misfortune down to Mater Marner’s ill will and irritated glances”
Lantern Yard
“narrow religious sect”
“he was believed to be a young man of exemplary life and ardent faith”
“Silas was both sane and honest”
“God will clear me”
“there is no just God…but a God of lies”
Silas “took refuge” by “getting into his loom”
“they shudder at the blasphemy”
“trust in man had been cruelly bruised”
Dolly
“she was a very mild patient woman”
“her simple raveloe theology”
“hew own simple belief”-> “baby was christened”
“It’s the Will o’ them above”
“If there’s any light to be got up the yard as you talk on…I’d be glad on it myself, if you could bring it back”
Silas
Eppie
“baby was christened”
Dunstan
“Dunsey- a spiteful, jeering fellow, who seemed to enjoy his dink the more when other people went day”
“I’ve got the luck”
“since you were so kind as to hand it to me”
“well, then, sell wildfire”
“I’m so easy and good natured”
“he preferred that Master Godfrey should be vexed”
“he was such a lucky fellow”
“took a fence too many, and got his horse pierced with a hedge-stake”
“rapping his whip”
“the weaver’s death was not a certainty”
“rode to his feet with the bags in his hand”
“felt a satisfaction at the absence of a witness”
William Dane
“regarded as a shining instance of youthful piety”
“narrow slanting eyes and compressed lips”
“to him, this trance looked more like a visitation of Satan than a proof of divine favour”
“William’s Dane’s finding the well-known bag, empty, tucked behind the chest of drawers in Silas’ chamber”
Molly Farren
“was a blight on his life”
“an ugly story”
“haunted by her”
“secret marriage”
“the journey on new years eve was an act of premeditated act of vengeance”
“molly knew that the cause of her dingy rags was not her husband’s neglect, but the demon Opium to whom she was enslaved, body and soul”
“the lingering mother’s tenderness that refused to give him her hungry child”
“the familiar demon”
Dunstan stealing gold pathetic fallacy
“mist was gathering”
“the rain and darkness had got thicker, and he was glad of it”
