blog writing #silas marner and weavers in the victorian era

Silas Marner and Weavers in the Victorian Era The novel “Silas Marner” by George Eliot is set in the Raveloe village in England during the first four decades of the 19th century. This novel by Eliot unfolds a story regarding a linen weaver known as Silas Marner who moved to Raveloe after the accusation that he was a thief in his hometown. This story takes place when the weaving industry was famous and largely practiced by many individuals in Great Britain. At that time weavers were important in England. However, at the same time, Industrial Revolution had started and it was threatening weavers such as Silas Marner who had focused on the weaving industry. In the story, hand-loom weavers for example Silas Marner were getting replaced by industrial workers making skilled weavers such as Silas become irrelevant. Weaving became useless because machine operators don’t need to know weaving as the machines only needed to keep on running.