His fits were regarded there as a mark of special closeness to the Holy Spirit.

The scene ends with the following description of Godfrey: 'The yoke a man creates for himself by wrong-doing will breed hate in the kindliest nature and the good-humoured, affectionate-hearted Godfrey Cass, was fast becoming a bitter man, visited by cruel wishes, that seemed to enter and depart, and enter again, like demons who had found in him a ready-garnished home. Fifteen years earlier, Silas was a respected member of a church at Lantern Yard in a city to the north. Finally in order to raise money to pay their father, Godfrey reluctantly allows Dunstan to sell Wildfire, his prized horse.

Furthermore it seems the first-born son is in financial trouble, having borrowed heavily from a friend of his father.ĭunstan uses all of this to his own advantage, threatening to tell the truth of Godfrey’s marriage to their father is his brother refuses to do him favors. Godfrey now wishes he was in fact married to Nancy, but realizes that he will have to decline since he’s already married. It seems he has married 'a drunken woman,' Molly Farren, without consulting his father, who thinks he should marry Nancy Lammeter. It soon becomes evident that Godfrey is hiding a very dark secret. The two brothers hate each other deeply, but realize they need each other in order to advance their own selfish desires. The novel is only slightly longer than the short stories that Eliot published in her first work, Scenes of Clerical Life (1858), and it is less than half as long as her other novels. While the author says that Dunstan is commonly thought of as the mischievous one, lately Godfrey has been following in his brother’s footsteps. Silas Marner, the Weaver of Raveloe, published in 1861, is unique among George Eliot 's writings for its brevity and its apparent allegorical clarity. The Squire has four sons, including Godfrey and Dunstan. Eliot’s third chapter discusses the Cass family, a very prominent and wealthy family of nobles headed by Squire Cass.

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