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1. Silas Marner was set in the early years of the nineteenth century in the small fictional village of Raveloe on the English country side. Silas Marner's small stone cottage was in the area called the Stone Pits which was close to the village of Raveloe, but still far off enough to be separated from the community in some ways. The setting of this novel is important to the story, but doesn't completely decide the action of the plot. The time that it was set in has less to do with the story than does the place. This story could have as easily been written in our times, with the gold being large amounts of money in Silas's bank and the weaving being some addicting courperate job. Though, the fact that the money was never found until the Stone Pits were drained is more likely to happen in the early nineteenth century. The place is a much more important part of the setting. The small village and desolate cottage add greatly to the story's plot. The small town gossip plays a part in many......

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