Resumo de The Return Of The Native

The theme of Thamas Hardy?s famous novel The Return of the NativeLike many other novels of Hardy Nature plays a vital role in his The Return of the Native. The co existence between men and Nature is actually the theme of the novel. In this novel Hardy shows that everyone is entirely dependent on Nature. If one is good to Nature then Nature will be good to him. Similarly if one does something harmful to it he will count his miseries. From the beginning of the novel Hardy hints that Egdon Heath is not a mere inanimate object here, it is Hardy?s representation of his views on Nature. It is Omnipresent. It is the fate, the destiny, god to the local inhabitants of Egdon Heath. Anyone who loves the heath the heath helps him in miseries but one who hates it will certainly be destroyed. Therefore the reader begins to feel an eerie sensation from the opening of the novel, but could understand that Egdon Heath is inevitable. As the title of the novel suggests the story centres round the return of the ?native?. Here the ?native? is obviously Clym, the hero of the novel who did his job in Paris but also had deep love emotion for his Native place Egdon Heath. When Clym comes back from Paris and now the story gets a new motion. Clym, the educated young man, is ready to sacrifice his prosperous life for the sake of the village children when Eustacia, the heroine of the novel and Wildeve, another important figure, are at once ready to leave the heath. The results of these events are known to the readers. Clym is helped and rescued indirectly. When Clym is semi blind he is engaged in cutting furze of the heath. But both Eustacia and Wildeve meet their tragic end as they try to run away from the heath. Hardy himself is a lover of Nature and rural life. He hates the fashionable life of city. His love for Nature is evident from the smaller instances of the novel like the village folk, their customs, bonfire, furze cutting etc; he has all his sympathies for Clym, simple village girl Thomasin, and noble reddleman. He does not sympathise even with his beautiful heroine Eustacia as she longs for city life and at last she is destroyed. Thus the co existence between men and Nature as a crucial point of the novel of Hardy is proved.

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