5/20/2023 0 Comments Book the return of the native![]() Most characters love the heath, work on it and understand its beauties and its histories others particularly Eustacia Vye are imprisoned by it and long to get away from it. The characters are divided both physically and emotionally by the heath, needing to traverse it endlessly to interact with one another. The Heath is almost a character in itself – a timeless landscape which carries the reminders of the civilisations that have come before, it is a dark looming presence. ![]() In The Return of the Native, Hardy uses the landscape of Egdon Heath to set the mood for the entire novel. ![]() Other Hardy readers beware – there are spoilers ahead. That for me was a bonus as it was almost like reading it for the first time – although things did start to come back to me as I read. Thomas Hardy is one of my favourite authors – and I know many other people love his writing too.Īs I have read all the Hardy novels before and nearly all the short stories this was a re-read for me although I had remembered surprisingly little about it. As I have mentioned before, I along with some friends have undertaken a Hardy reading challenge. ![]()
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