11), or the farrier who, in the Rainbow, is shown ‘taking up the thread of discourse’ (p. The language of storytelling is replete with similar associations, as indicated by Silas who recognizes that the Lantern Yard brethren have ‘woven a plot to lay the sin’ at his door (p. The Latin etymology of the word ‘text’, textus, evokes ‘that which is woven, web, texture’ ( OED). Erinna develops a creative vision in spite of, not thanks to, the weaving.Īlthough Silas’s weaving provides him with a numbing occupation rather than a creative vision, the novel nonetheless plays with the many affinities between weaving and writing, anticipating the narrator who, in Middlemarch, has ‘so much to do in unraveling certain human lots, and seeing how they were woven and interwoven’.
Here, too, the weaver is condemned ‘to spin the byssus drearily | In insect labour’ unlike Silas, however, ‘the passion in her eyes | Changes to melodic cries’. Eliot was sufficiently intrigued by such tales to compose, sometime between 18, the elegiac poem ‘Erinna’ about the Greek poetess who, at the age of 19, supposedly died after having been chained by her mother to a spinning wheel. In Tennyson’s ‘The Lady of Shalott’, published in 1832, both creativity and imprisonment are suggested by the mysterious figure who ‘weaves by night and day’. The myth presents Arachne’s weaving as a source of tremendous artistic power, but other tales underscore the confinement of weaving: in the fairy tale of Rumpelstiltskin, for example,a miller’s daughter is imprisoned and forced to spin straw into gold after her father’s careless boast. In the version given by Ovid in Metamorphoses, the goddess Athena recognizes Arachne’s superior skill but, enraged, transforms her into a spider. 14)) calls to mind the myth of Arachne, who boldly challenged a goddess to a weaving contest. Silas’s insect-like activity (he is reduced ‘to the unquestioning activity of a spinning insect’ and ‘seemed to weave, like the spider, from pure impulse, without reflection’ (p. Classical mythology and fairy tales are crowded with weavers. So Clarins created Eye Contour Gel with plant extracts from camomile, cornflower, marigold, soothing mallow and astringent witch-hazel.Repetition and storytelling are bound in the novel’s representation of weaving, a theme that exemplifies the manner in which Silas Marner deftly moves between fable and realism.Some have tried to appear natural by mixing these chemicals with plant extracts.Each preparation is a blend of fruit, flower, herb or plant extracts.And there are still more plant extracts in the superb Purifying Plant Mask!.In a large bowl, combine eggs, milk, vanilla extract and salt until well blended.Add vanilla extract and beat until mixture thickens and loses its gloss.an extract from "A Midsummer Night's Dream" vanilla/malt/plant etc extract.This treat he produced by mashing a sweet potato to pulp and adding sugar, vanilla extract, and evaporated milk.There are two other points in this extract, sentences 4 and 10, where adverbial clauses occur in sentence-initial position.But he can't discuss what the extracts reveal.I think your subconscious decided to provide you with a sort of extract from the main story.There's plenty of choice as cosmetics made with natural extracts abound.The book contains previously unpublished material, including extracts from diaries, letters and taped interviews.The wines of Bergères-les-Vertus are firm and fruity, with good extract and fine balance and well deserving of greater recognition.In the following extract, Jones presents the arguments in favour of nuclear power.2 DFN a substance obtained from something by using a special process vanilla/malt/plant etc extract Add one teaspoon of vanilla extract. ○ AWL noun 1 A PART a short piece of writing, music etc taken from a particular book, piece of music etc SYN excerpt extract from I’ve only seen short extracts from the film.
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