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Female Constraint in The Return of the Native: Analytical Essay

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The authors emphasise society’s extreme expectations by presenting a female character who embodies the ideal by being domestic and submissive, contrasting against Becky and Eustacia’s defiant and rebellious behaviour. ‘The running parallel and contrast between Amelia and Becky provides the narrative backbone’, emphasising the structural unity encompassing the novel, created by the alignment of their adventures despite their opposing values....

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Return of the Native'. Detailed Analysis of Chapters 3-5

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THE RETURN OF THE NATIVE Hardy has given a significant title to this chapter. Human beings appear on the scene and are surrounded by troubles. We are introduced to a retired naval officer (Captain Vye), and to a reddleman (Diggory Venn). The reddleman, described in favorable terms here, as a man with a pre-possessing exterior, is basically a business-man who...

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Faciality & Sensation in Hardy's 'Return of the Native'

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Thomas Hardy as a psychological realist, few critics have gone so far in the other direction as Gilles Deleuze, who states that Hardy’s characters ‘are not people or subjects, they are collections of intensive sensations’ (Deleuze and Parnet 39-40). This is to suggest not that Hardy is uninterested in people but that he is interested in them as material objects,...

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Return of the Native essays

Female Constraint in The Return of the Native: Analytical Essay

Return of the Native'. Detailed Analysis of Chapters 3-5

Faciality & Sensation in Hardy's 'Return of the Native'

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