... . Her drive for life has been compared to mighty Greek Goddesses, powerful yet fragile, and her passionate spirit and attitude is believed to be based on the ancient Greek poetess, Sappho (Howes 273). Hardy himself even described Eustacia using this comparison, "A profile was visible against the dull monochrome of cloud around her; and it was as though side shadows from the ... features of Sappho and Mrs. Siddons had converged upwards from the tomb to form an image like neither but suggesting both" (Hardy, Native 484). Although he wrote women as tragic beings, he truly ... ...

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