![]() Silas is kicked out of the church and his fiance calls off their marriage, prompting him to leave Lantern Yard for another town, Raveloe, in which his life consists of seemingly endless solitude, driving him to greedily seek company in his gold earnings from weaving. ![]() This represents the first of many evils in Silas’s life, all of which occur in the night or darkness. Silas, a native to Lantern Yard and a devout Christian, is watching over his town’s dying deacon at night when he has a cataleptic fit, preventing him from moving, seeing what is happening, or knowing any time has passed, when his ex-best friend William Dane comes into the house, steals the church money from the deacon’s bedside and plants Silas’s pocketknife in return as to frame Silas for the theft. His life is initially characterized by darkness from living in Lantern Yard. ![]() When Silas’s life takes a turn for the negative, there are many symbols that represent his life as one in darkness. ![]()
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