6/4/2023 0 Comments Raveloe silas marner![]() It's neat little shepherdesses, thatched roofs, and little babbling brooks it's blooming hollyhocks and pretty country weddings. The pastoral is a city girl's vision of country life. This idealized vision of country life is usually called "pastoral." The pastoral has nothing to do with actual villagers, who are usually overworked, muddy, and probably putting their hands into unpleasant parts of animals. No one's starving (starving was fairly common in English villages throughout much of history), everyone gets along, and there are even some chubby, rosy-cheeked children, like Dolly Winthrop's "apple-cheeked" boy Aaron (1.10.20). ![]() ![]() Eliot sets her novel in an idyllic village full of "nutty hedgerows" (1.1.2) that is "nestled in a snug well-wooded hollow" with a "fine old church and two or three large brick-and-stone homesteads, with well-walled orchards and ornamental weathercocks" (1.1.2). ![]()
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