Chapters 19 to 21 and the Conclusion — Eduqas GCSE English Literature C720
Eduqas GCSE English Literature · C720
Chapters 19 to 21 and the Conclusion
The plot, part by part
What you need to know
Godfrey and Nancy's visit to claim Eppie and her refusal, Godfrey's acceptance that it is too late, Silas and Eppie's journey to find Lantern Yard
replaced by a factory, and Eppie's wedding to Aaron.
Key quotations: 'It takes no hold of me now', 'If you hadn’t been sent to save me, I should ha’ gone to the grave in my misery', 'we should like to have Eppie, and treat her in every way as our own child', 'I can’t leave my father, nor own anybody nearer than him', 'I don’t want to be a lady', 'God gave her to me because you turned your back upon her', 'When a man turns a blessing from his door, it falls to them as take it in', 'there’s debts we can’t pay like money debts', 'Lantern Yard’s gone', 'The old home’s gone; I’ve no home but this now', 'you’ll only be taking Aaron to be a son to you', 'what a pretty home ours is!'.
Structure: a happy ending of a wedding and a home, set against Godfrey's quieter punishment, and the circle closed as Silas looks for his past and finds it gone.
Eduqas's essay on this novel marks context as much as response and analysis: weave context into the argument, and treat the printed extract as a starting point, ranging across the beginning, middle and end of the novel.
