robability suggest that a novel needs to be believable, this is a move away from romances and fantasies towards realism. Silas Marner conforms to these features of the novel as it contains the realistic element, as Jennifer Uglow explains it "explores mysterious laws woven into the fabric of daily life"(146). However, Gulliver's Travels does not, as Swift uses the imaginary countries of Lilliput, Blefuscu, Brobdingnag, Laputa, and the land of the Houyhnhnms. Familiarity involves the novel using familiar surroundings with characters of lower classes and ranks, real settings and names. Eliot uses a lower-class character for her book's protagonist and real names for her other characters, such as Godfrey, Nancy and William. Both novels have individuality as they are written from a particular point of view. Silas Marner uses 'unliterary' language, slang words and a regional dialect such as "Ay, ay" and "Eh", for example, throughout the novel.
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