Silas Marner - Discuss the presentation of the classes(gentry and workers) in the novel.
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Discuss the presentation of the classes(gentry and workers) in the novel Raveloe, belonging to the nineteenth-century class society, strictly follows the social caste system. The segregation between the rich and poor can be seen chapter two where ' the rich ate and drank freely, ...... and the poor thought that the rich were entirely in the right of it to lead a jolly life'. George Eliot has the social hierarchy encoded in many ways: their habits, their languages, and their way of thinking. Due to the lack of education, superstition reigns among the working people. They think that Marner was involved in black magic when he was able to sure Sally Oates. In chapter five, we know that the Rainbow is where most of working class hangs out. Their way of dressing suggests rurality, ' chiefly men in fustian jackets and smock-frocks'. Their lack of education can be seen...


