Clym and Eustacia meet and converse, and Clym offers to haul up some water for her. So what have we learned about the heath, aside from what it looks like? Well, we learn this: "The sea changed, the fields changed, the rivers, the villages, and the people changed, yet Egdon remained" (1.1.11). The Return of the Native Book 3, Chapters 34 : The Fascination Summary Share Summary Chapter 3: The First Act in a Timeworn Drama At Captain Vye's house, a half dozen of the heath people try to retrieve a bucket that has fallen into the well. When it appeared in 1969, John Fowless novel The French Lieutenants Woman was praised for the metafictional spin that it was seen to be giving to the.Hardy continues to wax rhapsodic about the heath.He really should have been a park ranger on the side. Hardy really, really loves his nature descriptions, that's for sure. A Saturday afternoon in November was approaching the time of twilight, and the vast tract of unenclosed wild known as Egdon Heath embrowned itself moment by moment. It's likened to some sort of prehistoric entity. The heath is dark and muted and lonely and tragic.Hardy describes the heath throughout the remainder of this chapter, which ends up acting a bit like a prologue.And look, the"face" from the chapter title comes into play: "The face of the heath by its mere complexion added half an hour to evening, it could in like manner retard the dawn, sadden the noon, anticipate the frowning of storms intensify the opacity of a moonless midnight " (1.1.2). Behind the narrative of The Return of the Native lie the tragic fates of Flauberts Madame Bovary and Oedipus, and in writing the novel Hardy endowed his.The sun is setting and the heath is getting dark and gloomy.
If you're wondering what the heck Egdon Heath is, don't worry.We open our tale on a Saturday afternoon in November in a place called Egdon Heath.
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