One of Thomas Hardy's most powerful works, The Return of the Native centers famously on Egdon Heath, the wild, haunted Wessex moor that D. H. Lawrence called "the real stuff of tragedy." The heath's changing face mirrors the fortunes of the farmers, inn-keepers, sons, mothers, and lovers who populate the novel. The "native" is Clym Yeobright, who comes home from a cosmopolitan life in Paris. He; his cousin Thomasin; her fiancé, Damon Wildeve; and the willful Eustacia Vye are the protagonists in a tale of doomed love, passion, alienation, and melancholy as Hardy brilliantly explores that theme so familiar throughout his fiction: the diabolical role of chance in determining the course of a life.
As Alexander Theroux asserts in his Introduction, Hardy was "committed to the deep expression of [nature's] ironic chaos and strange apathy, even hostility, toward man."
The Return of the Native was the turning point of Hardy’s writing carrier. From that period he started to engaged in writing tragedy. In this novel, the main characters contentedly struggled against with the living and social environment at that time. But ...
评分尤斯塔西亚骨子里是爱克莱姆的,不是简单被“来自巴黎的外壳”吸引,克莱姆的灵魂只有尤斯塔西亚才能读懂,善良、平凡的托玛茜是看不懂的,也走进不了克莱姆的内心,但尤氏就能轻松进入,他俩无需沟通就能相互欣赏。“克莱姆对尤氏的感情是一种倾注了全部生命的爱”。可...
评分出乎意料的,几乎这整整一个月的时间竟然会被《还乡》从而潜移默化般的,到现在越来越喜欢的感觉。我觉得它是乏味的,在读小说的第一卷。因为哈代一直用着不同的句子来描绘他所想象出来的荒原,正面的、侧面的、傍晚的、夜幕的……濒临了浏览的态度,可有可无,提不起...
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