Silas Marner Personal Response Essay
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Securing Self-Fulfillment
Self-fulfillment is the achievement of one’s desires and ambitions by one’s own doing. However, if someone falls short of achieving these goals, that person may become sad or angry with themselves, and may fall into a continuous cycle of a life. In the excerpt of “Silas Marner” by George Eliot, Silas is shunned by his family and friends which causes him to feel as though he has failed at achieving his life long goal. His life becomes routine in the fact he continuously works on his loom everyday and becomes obsessed with the thought of the money he can gain by doing so. When an individual falls short of securing the satisfaction of self-fulfillment, one may become sad, or disappointed in them selves, and get stuck in a mechanical way of life.
The excerpt from the novel Silas Marner by George Eliot, shows the importance of accepting your failures and not dwelling on them to the extent of focusing on nothing else. The feeling of not securing self-actualization (self-fulfillment) can be different to everyone. One could feel like a complete failure, or to another it may not be as big of a deal. To Silas Marner the feeling of not being able to accomplish his aspirations, is quite over bearable. The reader sees him struggling with the concept of basic living, it is so different for him because he has to do it without the help and company of others. It is shown clearly with the quote, “Then there were the calls of hunger; and Silas, in his solitude, had to provide his own breakfast, dinner, and supper, to fetch his own water from the well, and put his own kettle on the fire; and all these immediate promptings helped, along with the weaving, to reduce his life to the unquestioning activity of a spinning insect” (Eliot 19). This shows how Silas is struggling with the loneliness of his demise, and because of his situation he is emotionally drained. Since his whole life has consisted of working for other
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Securing Self-Fulfillment
Self-fulfillment is the achievement of one’s desires and ambitions by one’s own doing. However, if someone falls short of achieving these goals, that person may become sad or angry with themselves, and may fall into a continuous cycle of a life. In the excerpt of “Silas Marner” by George Eliot, Silas is shunned by his family and friends which causes him to feel as though he has failed at achieving his life long goal. His life becomes routine in the fact he continuously works on his loom everyday and becomes obsessed with the thought of the money he can gain by doing so. When an individual falls short of securing the satisfaction of self-fulfillment, one may become sad, or disappointed in them selves, and get stuck in a mechanical way of life.
The excerpt from the novel Silas Marner by George Eliot, shows the importance of accepting your failures and not dwelling on them to the extent of focusing on nothing else. The feeling of not securing self-actualization (self-fulfillment) can be different to everyone. One could feel like a complete failure, or to another it may not be as big of a deal. To Silas Marner the feeling of not being able to accomplish his aspirations, is quite over bearable. The reader sees him struggling with the concept of basic living, it is so different for him because he has to do it without the help and company of others. It is shown clearly with the quote, “Then there were the calls of hunger; and Silas, in his solitude, had to provide his own breakfast, dinner, and supper, to fetch his own water from the well, and put his own kettle on the fire; and all these immediate promptings helped, along with the weaving, to reduce his life to the unquestioning activity of a spinning insect” (Eliot 19). This shows how Silas is struggling with the loneliness of his demise, and because of his situation he is emotionally drained. Since his whole life has consisted of working for other