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.
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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