Silas Marner, although a story written in the 1800s in a rudimentary society with backward concepts and inverted beliefs, is still a story that readers can tell in a personal part of their life . Isolation and rejection, salvation and forgiveness, are all themes that occur regardless of the time period. Despite the fact that some characters struggle with certain themes more than others, this allows the audience to understand the author's purpose. "Silas Marner is not unworthy of the reputation already acquired..." In the next review entitled "Athenaeum" the critic mainly evaluates the characterization and setting of the novel Silas Marner. From the first sentences the critic begins to explode the idea that it is astonishing that Eliot managed to create a novel in which there was the absence of any "exciting or painful interest", and yet the audience is still fascinated by the truth of reality. expressed by the character's actions. They then expressed this further by discussing how the characters were firmly drawn and "worked out from within", rather than merely giving the appearance of them. Making the exact observations while reading, I thought with similar ideas. In addition to being struck by the way Eliot managed to entertain her readers without the classic “conflict resolution” trope that can be commonly used to describe English literature, I also noticed how the characters in particular seemed to exert a fascinating personal. For example, characters like Silas and Dolly indeed seemed “still” and real, obviously seeming to derive from the very being of the author herself. Next the critic makes an interesting point, invisible before I read it. They state how in the context of the s...... middle of paper ......made a nearly flawless piece of work. The plot, a human problem, involved the influence of a child on a bitter, isolated and recluse man who is apparently down on his luck to say the least. He is physically weak, intellectually he wasn't as close to anyone as he could have been, and he lost a religion that was narrow from the start. All redeemed by this child, or as Fairley says, the hidden plot. In my final and concluding source, I used Robert B. Heilman, an American educator and critic who has written extensively on English drama and fiction. He begins not by launching directly into criticism, but by describing how the book is regarded along with other pieces of Eliot. It then makes a gentle transition into the Silas Marner storyline. He points out that in all of Eliot's novels there is the presence of ethical problems, "derived from his early evangelical training”.