how are the weavers treated differently from the farmers by the locals of Raveloe?
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The local people of Raveloe treated weavers with distrust and suspicion. This was because most of the inhabitants of Raveloe were farmers. Most of them had never seen a weaver’s loom before and thought of it as an instrument used for evil magic. Silas Marner’s quiet and detached behaviour only compounded matters further.
The book ‘Silas Marner’ was written by Mary Ann Evans (1819 – 1880), who wrote under the pen name George Elliot.
Weaving or Cotton farming become the most high-risk activity so that most of farmers are obliged to grow American variety Gossypium hirsutum instead of rather than the indigenous varieties Gossypium herbaceum as well as Gossypium arboreum.
It is mainly due to that of the native varieties produced as finest cloth of past.
Many number of machines are used in the modern day along with the best extensive strong fibres.