Silas Marner Essay



Silas Marner
Essay Exam
AP English
Fall 2003

Choose one prompt and write your answer in your composition book. You should take no longer than 40 minutes and may not use your book or notes for this essay. Remember to avoid plot summary and to substantiate your claims with evidence from the text. Have a great weekend!

A. "The struggle to achieve dominance over others frequently appears in fiction." Write an essay showing for what purposes George Eliot uses that struggle in Silas Marner.


B. Writers often highlight the values of a culture or a society by using characters who are alienated from that culture or society because of gender, race, class, or creed.

From Silas Marner show how that character's alienation reveals the surrounding society's assumptions and moral values.

Posted: Fri - October 3, 2003 at 04:03 PM        


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