Return of the native; a complex chracterisation
Title: Return of the native; a complex chracterisation
Category: /Literature/Biographies
Details: Words: 2421 | Pages: 9 (approximately 235 words/page)
Return of the native; a complex chracterisation
Category: /Literature/Biographies
Details: Words: 2421 | Pages: 9 (approximately 235 words/page)
'In Eustacia, Hardy creates a woman who challenges conventions of her society' How do you respond to Hardy's presentation in 'Return of the native' of the conventions surrounding the relations between men and women?
Contemporary readers tend to take for granted the notion that literature does not convey, or even attempt to convey, absolute truth. Since the modernist movement at the beginning of the 20th century, literature has tended to pose questions rather than define
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novel is deeply rooted in the folk customs of the residents of the Heath, and attempts to imitate their attitudes and even their patterns of speech. It is the return to the heath of the educated Clym Yeobright that supplies the novel's title and catalyzing crisis. This surely derives from the experience of Thomas Hardy himself, who only a few years before the publication of the novel made his own return to his native country.