6/4/2023 0 Comments Return of the native author![]() ![]() This is how Thomas Hardy uses Eustacia to demonstrate the ideal of Naturalism and his theme of the novel, survival of the fittest. It was just this particular town that caused Eustacia’s dismay. ![]() ![]() Eustacia was constantly described as a witch or mystical creature, and the narrator himself even admitted that Eustacia could have been a very different person, had she lived somewhere else. She claimed “Egdon was her hades” (Hardy 72) and constantly dreamt of moving to far-away places such as America. The Heath often serves as an excuse for Eustacia’s poor life decisions such as her clandestine romances or her almost-adultery. Eustacia Vye, the anti-heroine of the novel, was forced to live in Egdon with her grandfather. Hardy cultivated his rural setting, Egdon heath, to be a place that strongly influences the main character of the novel and supports his theme of “survival of the fittest”. Thomas Hardy’s novel, The Return of the Native was influenced greatly by naturalistic ideals. ![]()
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