A comparative study: Great expectations and the Silas Marner

The evils and challenges of living conditions

Abstract

This study attempts to compare two important literary books. One is Great Expectations by Charles Dickens and another is The Silas Marner by George Eliote. The main purpose of this study is to examine the environmental problems that two books dealt with  different stories in the same period in the literary world. This is a qualitative study. In the Great Expectations book, the aim is to explain the shortage of livelihoods and the struggles and ambitions of people in these situations. In The Silas Marner, one commits betrayal under difficult living conditions and learns the challenges of life on his own. In other words, the research has many aspects of features. Two books on life, lack of livelihood and social problems in the books written by two important authors of the literary period were examined.