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The Return of the Native
The first chapter of The Return of the Native is an extended description of the "vast tract of unenclosed wild known as Egdon Heath". The landscape is always central to Hardy's writing and here he...
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The Return of the Native
Thomas Hardy's views on the future of human civilization can be found in his novel The Return of the Native. The novel emphasizes the clash of cultures and values that was occurring during the...
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The Return of the Native
To begin, the residents of the Heath refers to the residents of Egdon Heath in Thomas Hardy’s nineteenth-century novel The Return of the Native. Authors from a more illustrious background might...
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The Return of the Native
Thomas Hardy's famous 1878 novel, Return of the Native, is unique for featuring a host of developed characters rather than just one main protagonist. The passage of time has a pronounced effect on...
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The Return of the Native
Clement Yeobright—known as Clym—is a modern man because he is known by his history rather than his age. Thomas Hardy says that many men can be understood simply by knowing their age but that a...
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The Return of the Native
Fate and love are arguably two of the most important themes in Thomas Hardy's Return of the Native. The novel famously revolves around the love pentagon of Diggory Venn, Clym Yeobright, Thomasin...
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The Return of the Native
It is only possible to write a conclusion after one has written the rest of the essay. An essay normally advances a central thesis or claim and then uses various forms of evidence to support that...
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The Return of the Native
Egdon Heath is not simply the setting of Hardy's Return of the Native. Rather, in some ways, it is another character, symbolic of an all-seeing, uninvolved god. Hardy personifies the heath in his...
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The Return of the Native
Your question could be interpreted in a couple of ways; so I've listed below examples of those interpretations below. Rustics (in reference to rustic elements): In Native, Hardy devotes much of the...
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The Return of the Native
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....
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The Return of the Native
I take it you are refering to the first section of this great novel, in which Chapter Seven is entiteld "Queen of Night." This chapter is key in building up our impression of Eustacia Vye,...
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The Return of the Native
Thomas Hardy is classified as neither a romantic nor a realistic writer but a naturalistic one. However, since naturalism is in many ways an outgrowth of realism, Hardy probably aligns more...
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The Return of the Native
One of the themes of the book is the way in which the natural environment exercises such a profound effect on the people who inhabit it. The fictional setting of Egdon Heath is almost a character...
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The Return of the Native
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...
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The Return of the Native
Thomas Hardy's first chapter of The Return of the Native is devoted to a lengthy description of Egdon Heath suggesting that it is both a natural and an intrinsic force in the lives of the...
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The Return of the Native
It is clear that in this novel, Egdon Heath in some ways is presented as being more of a character than some of the characters themselves. Note the time and space that is devoted to describing...
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The Return of the Native
Eustacia Vye above all is a character who is shown to not fit in with her rural setting. The novel constantly describes her as being a "goddess" or some form of mystical, other-worldly creature,...
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The Return of the Native
Egdon Heath is the setting of the novel and is integral to the events in it. The book begins with a vivid description of the heath, emphasizing the flat, infertile land. Nothing can be grown there...
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The Return of the Native
The love triangle is a key element in the plot of this classic work. Let us remember that it starts of with the relationship that Eustacia and Wildeve have enjoyed, and how this relationship is...
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The Return of the Native
Egdon Heath, the rather grim setting of the novel, is the embodiment of Nature against which several of the characters struggle, unfortunately, unsuccessfully. Although the theme of man against...
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The Return of the Native
You might like to consider the way that Egdon Heath is linked to some sort of primeval past in the novel. This effect is achieved through the description we are given of the Heath in Chapter One on...
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The Return of the Native
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...
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The Return of the Native
In Thomas Hardy's novel The Return of the Native, the landscape of the village that Clemson Yeobright returns to is compellingly described in detail in the first chapter. The village is isolated,...
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The Return of the Native
Key to answering this question is understanding the way in which Hardy presents Eustacia Vye as being intimately connected to the malign forces of Egdon Heath. The Heath itself is so important that...
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The Return of the Native
It has been four years since I taught Return of the Native, but when I did teach it, my students were juniors in AP English Language. I focused on Hardy's style and worldview. What I found was that...
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The Return of the Native
I'm thinking you are referring to Book V, since several of the books contain a "chapter 5", and it is written differently than the other books.Book V is characterized by quick movements...
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The Return of the Native
Clym Yeobright is of course the character who corresponds to the title of the book, as he returns to his native land. However, although Clym is clearly one ofthe major characters, he spends the...
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The Return of the Native
The young lady—for youth had revealed its presence in her buoyant bound up the bank—walked along the top instead of descending inside, and came to the corner where the fire was burning. One reason...
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The Return of the Native
Are you merely making an observation from the novel, or are you trying to encourage discussion? If you are arguing that the heath is just as much a character in Return of the Native as the novel's...
