![]() ![]() The gold coins that he earns at his loom represent for him all the meaning that he has lost, and the faces printed on the coins serve as his only company. Marner, for his part, is content to live a life of almost total solitude in his simple cottage beside the Stone-pits. Marner seems to have supernatural powers-he is able to heal a local woman using herbal arts he learned from his mother-but the villagers of Raveloe do not know his background and thus find his knowledge diabolical and threatening. The villagers appreciate Marner's trade but find him strange and unapproachable. Marner eventually settles at the outskirts of Raveloe, a provincial village in the English Midlands. After the lots proclaim Marner guilty, he flees from Lantern Yard, utterly crushed, leaving behind his faith in God and in humankind. The community of Lantern Yard draws lots to determine Marner's guilt or innocence in the crime. Marner suffers from cataleptic fits which leave him as insensible as stone and vulnerable to Dane's frame-up. Marner's supposed best friend, Willam Dane, frames him for the theft of a pouch of coins. ![]() Silas Marner, a weaver, is an eager and promising young member of a Puritan religious community, Lantern Yard. ![]()
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