Key quotations — Silas Marner — Eduqas GCSE English Literature C720
Eduqas GCSE English Literature · C720
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!'.
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.
