Throughout "The return of the native", Thomas Hardy is very successful in showing how the heath is untamable and becomes what each character wants it to be. The atmosphere is ... This heath, although seemingly only a location of the story, plays a very significant role. The role and symbolism of the heath are truly explored through some of Hardy's statements. "The heavens being spread with this pallid screen, the earth with the darkest vegetation, their meeting-line at the horizon was clearly marked". This is highlighting ... power when describing the scene. "The sea changed, the fields cha...

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• Grade Level: High School

Thomas Hardy uses a lot of techniques in his writing that give the reader a sense of hopelessness, and darkness for his characters. In his novel, The Return of the Native, Hardy uses a lot of different techniques that seem to carry over to his other works, including a good amount of very dark symbolism ... on life, he uses irony consistently, he carries a motif of fate and fatalistic ideas throughout the novel, and he uses a lot of metaphorical language. Hardy seems to use all of his techniques and his diction to portray how life is in no way under the characters control, but fate has a grea...

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"A face on with time makes but little impression," that is what Thomas Hardy starts off the book as the title of the first chapter depicting Egdon Heath, the major symbol in the book. Although there are many interpretations of what the heath symbolizes, ... ...

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• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School