Key quotations — Silas Marner — Edexcel GCSE English Literature 1ET0
Edexcel GCSE English Literature · 1ET0
Key quotations
Key quotations
What you need to know
The essential quotations from Silas Marner, grouped by character and by theme, each with what it means and how to analyse it.
A table of 30 to 40 key quotations by character and theme, each with its speaker, place and a one-line note, for testing yourself.
Including 'a God of lies, that bears witness against the innocent', 'He loved the guineas best', 'the gold had turned into the child', 'the hand may be a little child’s', 'Favourable Chance, I fancy, is the god of all men who follow their own devices', 'Everything comes to light, Nancy, sooner or later', 'I can’t think o’ no happiness without him', 'When a man turns a blessing from his door, it falls to them as take it in' and 'what a pretty home ours is!'.
Edexcel's novel question has two parts, and neither marks context: part (a) on the printed extract marks language, form and structure (AO2); part (b) on the novel elsewhere, from memory, marks the argument and its references (AO1), not language analysis. Use context only where it explains a reading, and say which part each worked paragraph and exam tip is for.
