A 3-minute lecture on the theme of absent mothers and bad fathers in George Eliot's novel, Silas Marner.

Please note that "patriarch" is used in a traditional sense here, as in a father, founder or head of a family or clan; a venerable old man, ideally symbolising or embodying the positive virtues of the male (its complement being the matriarch). It does not refer to the fashionable use of "patriarchy".

Image: "Silas finds Eppie" courtesy of The Jenson Society, NY (Wikipedia).

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