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        <title><![CDATA[Thank you for this brilliant question. In Thomas Hardy's novel The...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Thank you for this brilliant question. In Thomas Hardy's novel The Return of the Native, the setting (Egdon Heath) is as important as anything in the novel and the experience of spatiality lies at the core of the novel. There is a space of nativity and there is a space of return and the novel seems to show an ironic tension between these two. Egdon Heath, flattening Paul Carter's definitions, is both a space (unoccupied) and a place...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 3 Nov 2009 03:36:46 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What aspect of belonging is explored in The Return of the Native?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What aspect of belonging is explored in The Return of the Native?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2009 21:09:08 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Arguably, the most important scene from Hardy's masterpiece is the one...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Arguably, the most important scene from Hardy's masterpiece is the one in which Eustacia will not open the door to her mother-in-law.  Mrs. Yeobright takes this as her son's rejection of her after she had put away her pride to go visit him. She dies, alone and fatigued in a field, and her death sets in motion the tragic events near the book's ending (Wildeve's drowning death and Eustacia's accidental or suicidal death).  While Clym is left...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2009 17:05:06 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The 5th of November bonfires as lit up by the Egdon rustics represent a...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The 5th of November bonfires as lit up by the Egdon rustics represent a celebratory, ritual fire which is very different from Eustacia's fire seeking the attention of Damon Wildeve, her fire being a fire symbolising the passion of love in her. Later at a crucial juncture in the novel, Charley lits up a fire to enthuse eustacia without her consent and outside her knowledge, and the fire is wrongly understood as a signal for new love from...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 07:33:19 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[For Native, Hardy chooses the same type of narration that he uses for...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[For Native, Hardy chooses the same type of narration that he uses for many of his novels.  His third person omniscient narration is key because it represents Hardy's version of Providence or God. The narrator reports, without emotion, the struggles and conflicts of the poor inhabitants of the heath.  Eustacia and Wildeve carry out their tryst all under the watchful but far-removed eye of the narrator.
While third person omniscient...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2009 18:49:13 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The title of Hardy's novel, The Return of the Native refers to Clym...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The title of Hardy's novel, The Return of the Native refers to Clym Yeobright who returns to his native Egdon having given up the accomplished profession of a diamond-trader in Paris. Clym returns with his books and an altruistic mission to set up schools in Egdon and Budmouth. His mission and intention, however miscarried, make Clym a dedicated reformist bent on changing the so long unaltered face of primitive Egdon. Clym works hard to become...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2009 08:45:59 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Clym as a modern man in the novel 'The Return of the Native']]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Clym as a modern man in the novel 'The Return of the Native']]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 30 May 2009 23:46:35 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What type of narrative technique does Thomas Hardy use in The Return of...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What type of narrative technique does Thomas Hardy use in The Return of the Native?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2009 14:13:31 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What is the significance of the fire in Return of the Native?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What is the significance of the fire in Return of the Native?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2009 04:48:15 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What is the most important scene in The Return of the Native by Thomas...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What is the most important scene in The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 11 Nov 2008 06:57:07 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The above commentator rightly argues about how the characters in...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/return-native/q-and-a/what-hardy-s-philosophy-life-25893</link>
        <description><![CDATA[The above commentator rightly argues about how the characters in Hardy’s novel do not have control over their lives. However, it can also be added in this regard that Hardy’s philosophy of life in The Return of can be approached from two different, but interconnected perspectives. First of all, Hardy believes that characters are governed by fate. In The Return of the Native Hardy symbolises this ‘fate’ by his presentation of chance and...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 22 Jun 2008 13:02:35 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Hardy has a very pessimistic philosophy of life as can be seen in his...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Hardy has a very pessimistic philosophy of life as can be seen in his characters who seem to have little control over their own lives.  Hardy saw external circumstances and uncontrollable internal urges as controlling human actions.  In Eustacia Vye, attributes such as her beauty which would usually be considered an asset are actually a curse to her in her surroundings.  Hardy's characters cannot be called &quot;rustic characters&quot;...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 10 Jun 2008 05:53:28 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What is Hardy's philosophy of life in &quot;The Return of the Native&quot;?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What is Hardy's philosophy of life in &quot;The Return of the Native&quot;?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 8 Jun 2008 14:40:32 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[I'm thinking you are referring to Book V, since several of the books...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I'm thinking you are referring to Book V, since several of the books contain a &quot;chapter 5&quot;, and it is written differently than the other books.Book V is characterized by quick movements and dramatic situations. Most of the important action takes place within a few days, whereas the events in the other books are slow-moving, taking months to unfold all of the events. Hardy develops a melodramatic writing style, which is reflected in...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 12 Jun 2007 19:37:31 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What are the techniques used  in &quot;Return of the Native&quot; by...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What are the techniques used  in &quot;Return of the Native&quot; by Thomas Hardy?  (Ch 5)]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 12 Jun 2007 03:57:43 PST</pubDate>
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