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Quote 1: "The sea changed, the fields changed, the rivers, the villages, and the people changed, yet Egdon remained." Book 1, Chapter 1, pg. 3The setting is the isolated, desolate, wild land called Egdon Heath on a cold November evening. Nighttime brings the heath to life, awakens possibilities for its inhabitants. The people of the heath live and work comfortably here, even though it is overgrown and obscure, untouched for ages except by the wide road that now travels its length
In this quotation you notice the importance of the setting, so in any quotation mentioning Egdon heath you will have to talk about the importance of the setting because it has a major role in the novel to the extent that some critics regard it as a major character , in discussing the setting we are going to discuss three major points: the setting plays a major role in the lives of the characters ,and you give examples. The characters of the novel are devided in to two groups , those who like living in Egdon heath and others who want to leave Egdon heath , Egdon heath as a simple of fate .
There is the theme of change , everything changes except the heath it is like it is it does not change as if the writer trying to say that time is changing and developing but we should stick to our past. Quote 2: Wildeve asks Eustacia if he should marry Thomasin; he declares, "I wish Tamsie were not such a confoundedly good little woman so that I could be faithful to you without injuring a worthy person." Part 1, Chapter 9, pg. 64Diggory Venn has been in love with Thomasin Yeobright since two years ago, when he was still in the dairy trade. He reads a letter she had written him back then, when he'd proposed to her and she had gently refused, because her aunt did not approve of his low class. Thomasin is the reason he changed occupations and is now a reddleman. Although he does not see Thomasin when traveling around the heath, selling reddle, he takes pleasure in the fact that she is nearby. He is proud that Thomasin has entrusted him with bringing her home. Although he does not believe Wildeve's feelings to be honest, Venn wants Thomasin to be happy even if her happiness means marriage to Wildeve.
Now that he knows that Eustacia is the cause of Wildeve's not marrying Thomasin, he considers her an enemy to Thomasin. He decides to spy on Eustacia and Wildeve at their secret meeting place and eavesdrops on their conversation. Wildeve asks Eustacia if he should marry Thomasin, He did not marry Thomasin, he says, because of their invalid license and because she had run away; he also hints that Thomasin's aunt is another good reason for marring Thomasin. Eustacia, who wants him to say it was her who swayed Wildeve from Tomasin, declares that he will always love her more than Thomasin and will always want to marry her. Wildeve agrees, expressing both of their desires to leave the heath forever. They both abhor the heath, and its mournful and lonely landscape.
The situation : Wildeve asks Eustacia if he should marry Thomasin, in a quotation like this you identify the characters especially if it is a direct speech , you identify the speaker and the addressee , who is speaking to whom and about what ?? can you identify these 3 things??? Wildeve talking to Eustacia about Thomasin, the situation is : Wildeve wants to marry Thomasin though he is in love with Eustacia, there is the theme of guilt and remorse because he wants to marry Thomasin though he is in love with Eustacia + the theme of morality if Thomasine was not a good person it would have been easy for Wildeve to cheat on her + theme of love and passion , both characters Wildeve and Eustacia follow their passions and they fall in love with each other in a society which represents moral Victorian society they are doing something that their society do not approve of .
Quote 3: "She had loved him partly because he was exceptional in this scene, partly because she had determined to love him, chiefly because she was in desperate need of loving somebody after wearying of Wildeve." Book 2, Chapter 6, pg. 108
Identify the characters: Wildeve, Eustacia and Clym. Identify the situation : about love and passion , you will mention Eustacia's scheme marrying Clym to leave Egdon heath she was looking for someone worthy of her not Wildeve but Clym. Themes : self center + influence of the setting from what kind of group is she loving the heath or wanting to leave it . she did not go to Paris her dream because he did not intend to leave, he betrayed her.
Quote 4: Clym's stay in Egdon has made him realize that his business in Paris is the "idlest, vainestill , most effeminate business that a man could be put to." Book 3, Chapter 1, pg. 130
It is mainly about Clym and when you mention his reaction towards the heath we will meet the point of reaction of different characters towards the heath ¸you will refer to the title of the novel , when he returns to the heath after being away for sometime in Paris he has a sense of longing and he has a sense of responsibility he sees the people there living in superstition , he feels being an educated man he has the responsibility to educate them and change them. He becomes a preacher but achieving his aim meant that he would not achieve his wife's aim of leaving the heath.
Quote 5: Clym speaks with passion, "I would give it up and try to follow some rational occupation among the people I knew best, and to whom I could be of most use." Book 3, Chapter 1, pg. 130
You will say the same thing he is expressing his sense of responsibility towards Egdon heath so this quotation is a completion of the previous quotation
Quote 6: It is painfully evident to Eustacia that although Clym is embarrassed of the heathmen, he cares very much for his home--"It is the most exhilarating, and strengthening, and soothing. I would rather live on these hills than anywhere else in the world." Book 3, Chapter 3, pg. 142
Major theme : the reaction of the characters towards the heath Clym is an example of those characters who love the heath unlike Eustacia , Clym loves the heath he wants to stay there , the influence of the heath on him is great but the heath does not react to him the same way and he at the end remains as a sad man.
Quote 7: "Though I should like Paris, I love you for yourself alone. To be your wife and live in Paris would be heaven to me; but I would rather live with you in a hermitage here than not be yours at all." Book 3, Chapter 4, pg. 152 Every night, he goes to meet Eustacia on Rainbarrow, and one night she voices her fears that Mrs. Yeobright will influence Clym against her. Clym assures her that his mother will not stop him from seeing her, as she knows that they are romantically involved. Clym proposes to Eustacia; she asks for time to think it over and begs him to talk about Paris. She tells him that she will marry him if he will take her back to Paris. Clym is destined to do far greater things with his life than staying on the heath, Eustacia believes, although Clym disagrees. He has vowed to stay on the heath and become a schoolteacher. Eustacia suddenly decides to marry him, as she does not believe his education scheme will pan out. As the two of them walk back to Mistover, Clym thinks about three obstacles to his future happiness: his mother's trust in him, his plan to become a schoolteacher, and Eustacia's own happiness.
Here Eustacia is speaking to Clym about staying in the heath and about their love this is before their marriage , is she being really true when she say I love you more…. She was not really revealing her true feelings , the theme of love , marriage , appearance versus reality , the readers are not going to believe the character here because she is not expressing her true intentions.
Quote 8: Eustacia explodes, "If I had known then what I know now, that I should be living in this wild heath a month after my marriage, I--I should have thought twice before agreeing." Book 4, Chapter 1, pg. 185Mrs. Yeobright decides to see Eustacia about the guineas. Upon hearing Mrs. Yeobright's decision to visit Eustacia, Christian finally admits to Mrs. Yeobright that Wildeve had won the money, both Thomasin's and Clym's share. Christian suggests that perhaps Wildeve will give half the guineas to Eustacia. Fueled by this new suggestion, Mrs. Yeobright goes to see her daughter-in-law. Mrs. Yeobright bluntly asks Eustacia if Wildeve had given her money as a gift; Eustacia vehemently denies that she has the money and is deeply insulted at the implication that Clym needs guarding against her and that she is committing adultery with Wildeve. Eustacia then accuses Mrs. Yeobright of having hated her all this time for no reason. When Eustacia furiously proclaims that she married beneath her, Mrs. Yeobright hotly retorts that her son's lineage is far better than Eustacia's. Eustacia explodes, The two women part in silence and anger.
She is contradicting herself and we take it as an expression of herself same themes of the previous quotation, now she married Clym and she stays in the heath and she does not go to Paris because also he is almost blinded . = example of coincidence . Quote 9: Mrs. Yeobright asks Johnny Nunsuch to tell his mother that he had seen a "broken-hearted woman cast off by her son." Book 4, Chapter 6, pg. 220Mrs. Yeobright is heading home in the hot sun, feeling utterly devastated and betrayed by her own son. She believes Clym to have refused her, as she knows that Clym was inside the house and assumes that he allowed Eustacia to shut her out. Johnny Nunsuch joins Mrs. Yeobright, who wonders why she looks so exhausted and sad. Johnny waits with her for a while, bringing her water and waiting until he becomes impatient and leaves. Mrs. Yeobright begins her walk alone, walking slowly until she is in too much pain from the heat and the length of her journey to walk and has to sit down on a soft spot to rest.
Clym wakes up, having dreamt that that he had taken Eustacia to his mother's house but they could not get in, despite his mother's crying for help. As a result of the dream, he resolves that he must see his mother as soon as possible.
Mrs. Yeobright speaks about her son she is speaking to Johnny , she is dieing , son mother relationship, mother son relationship , she tells the young boy to tell everybody that she is dieing and that she is very sad that she is not able to speak to her son, she considers herself of being cast of from her son , hardy likes to show his character's sufferings we see failure of characters because of fate and misconceptions of situations , she had a misconception that her son and daughter in law does not want her which was not true because Eustacia thought that the knocking would wake Clym that is why she would not open the door and not because she did not want her. Quote 10: Eustacia hears Johnny Nunsuch cry out, "She said I was to say that I had seed her, and she was a broken-hearted woman and cast off by her son." Book 4, Chapter 8, pg. 232When Wildeve appears suddenly, Eustacia congratulates him on his fortune. Wildeve tells her that he meant to sound indifferent about his inheritance, because Clym has Eustacia instead of money. Wildeve tells Eustacia of his plans to travel around the world before finally settling in Paris.
They walk further down the heath until they see that a hut is occupied. Seeing that Clym and his mother are inside, Eustacia asks Wildeve to spy on them. At that moment, Mrs. Yeobright is near death. The doctor tells Clym and the villagers that it was the long walk in the heat that has exhausted Mrs. Yeobright's weak heart, although the adder bite does contribute to her suffering. Mrs. Yeobright dies, with Clym and Thomasin weeping. she also hears Clym gasp in surprise and sob. Eustacia does not dare to enter the hut; she feels terribly guilty and remorseful. She feels that she is to blame for Mrs. Yeobright's death, for she had not admitted her mother-in-law into the house.
Johnny here tells everybody what his mother told him to say as if she is revealing the misbehavior of her son and his wife , how does this influence Clym and Eustacia ??? Clym is upset he blames Eustacia for the death of his mother and they are separated and she goes to live with her grandfather. Quote 11: Clym furiously yells at Eustacia, "The day you shut the door against my mother and killed her." Book 5, Chapter 3, pg. 249Clym learns that Mrs. Yeobright was sitting outside Clym's house when Johnny first saw her; that an unknown man entered the house; that Mrs. Yeobright had knocked when she saw Eustacia at the window; that Mrs. Yeobright had left because she was not admitted inside and walked off with Johnny. Clym realizes that Eustacia must have shut out his mother, leading his mother to believe that he didn't want to see her.
Enraged, Clym returns home the next day and confronts Eustacia, demanding to know the identity of the male visitor she had seen on August 31st. When Eustacia replies that she does not remember dates well, Clym furiously yells at her,
Clym is rampaging, violent, even brutal as he tries to get Eustacia to confess. After he finds an envelope with 'Wildeve' written on it, he mistakenly believes that she is seeing Wildeve. As much as he is outraged and maddened, she defies him by not giving in to his inquiries. She does not admit that the man was Wildeve. She is frustrated and bitter at Clym and almost wishes that he would kill her, to get her out of the heath. Eustacia accuses Clym of deceiving her, and Clym suddenly realizes that she is in so much pain because they have stayed on the heath.
Same like the previous he accuses Eustacia of killing his mother, misconception , separation between husband and wife .
Quote 12: "She would have to live on as a painful object, isolated, and out of place. She had used to think of the heath alone as an uncongenial spot to be in; she felt it now of the wholeOn the 6th of November, as Eustacia prepares to flee Egdon, she has fleeting memories of Clym that lift her hopes, but she finally decides that he will never want her again.
Here it is about Eustacia and the narrator going inside her and telling us how she felt his is an indication of the, the change in the English novel towards being a modern novel ,feelings of misery she has to live isolated especially after separation and because she is not leaving the heath , she wants to leave the world and she achieves that because she dies at the end.
Quote 13: Eustacia feels degraded and humiliated that she is fleeing with Wildeve as his mistress: "He's not great enough for me to give myself--he does not suffice for my desire!" Book 5, Chapter 7, pg. 271
Same situation we said before she feels that Wildeve is not suitable for her and even at the end of the novel she thinks that she will elope with Wildeve she has no choice she wants to leave the heath because he offered her leaving the heath but she does not leave the heath.
Quote 14: "I have no money to go alone! And if I could, what comfort to me? I must drag on next year, as I have dragged on this year, and the year after that as before. How have I tried and tried to be a splendid woman, and how destiny has been against me! I do not deserve my lot! O, the cruelty of putting me into this ill-conceived world! I was capable of much; but I have been injured and blighted and crushed by things beyond my control! O, how hard it is of Heaven to devise such tortures for me, who have done no harm to Heaven at all!" Book 5, Chapter 7, pg. 271Eustacia sets out to meet Wildeve, discovering that it has begun to rain. She stops at Rainbarrow to think; she suddenly realizes that she has forgotten to bring money with her. She feels degraded and humiliated that she is fleeing with Wildeve as his mistress: Feeling that the whole world is against her, she bemoans her fate as a woman destined for cruelty from the moment she was born. She realizes the futility of her fate:
This quotation concentrates on reflecting the feelings of the characters, she feels that she has been a victim of faith , you will talk about Eustacia and her relation to the heath and that it is by coincidence she is living in the heath . Tomas hardy likes to show his characters struggling towards achieving something and maybe most of the time failing in achieving their plans.
Quote 15: "To her there were not, as to Eustacia, demons in the air, and malice in every bush and bough. The drops which lashed her face were not scorpions, but prosy rain; Egdon in the mass was no monster whatever, but impersonal open ground. Her fears of the place where rational, her dislikes of its worst moods reasonable. At this time it was in her view a windy, wet place, in which a person might experience much discomfort, lose the path without care, and possibly catch cold." Book 5, Chapter 8, pg. 278Thomasin cannot stand being in the house alone when she fears that there may be trouble brewing. Wrapping the baby warmly, she leaves the house in a great hurry. She is anxious to know what happened with her husband and Eustacia. The storm does not frighten her, nor does the landscape of the heath disturb her as it does Eustacia:
We are talking about Thomasine and the contrast between our major theme the reaction towards the heath and Eustacia's , Eustacia hates the heath so if something happens to her it’s the demons of the heath but Thomasine is the opposite, Eustacia dies as a result of her attitude towards the heath , so is hardy against Eustacia ??? in some aspects yes but in our situation no he wants to keep England's history as a part of his identity = against change.
Quote 16: Clym believes that he has done an unforgivable deed and his regret is that, "... for what I have done no man or law can punish me." Book 5, Chapter 9, pg. 289Clym confides to Venn that he killed Eustacia by driving her away from him and wishes that he were dead instead. No matter how much Venn comforts him, Clym believes that he has done an unforgivable deed and his regret is that, "for what I have done no man or law can punish me"
He told Eustacia that Paris is not fascinating as she thinks it is he tricked her he made her form a bad conception of Paris , theme of regret and how he manipulated Eustacia .
Fate 6: It is fate that both Wildeve and Mrs. Yeobright call on Clym and Eustacia at the same time, and it is fate that Clym is asleep when the visitors call. Mrs. Yeobright believes that Eustacia ignores her for her other visitor, Mrs. Yeobright believes that her son has cast her off, and Eustacia believes that Clym will awaken and let his mother in.
Fate 7: Clym dreams that his mother is crying for him to help her inside her house, but in the dream, she cannot allow him in her house. His dream makes him resolve to reconcile with his mother, but it also symbolizes the trouble and turmoil his mother really is in. Clym's dream comes too late, for he never gets the chance to reconcile with her before she dies.
: Clym writes Eustacia a letter begging her to return to him - but he sends the letter too late. Eustacia does not see the letter before she leaves to flee with Wildeve. If she had, she might have stayed on the heath to be with Clym.
Fate 13: Clym is devastated by the deaths of his wife and mother, believing that he drove them to their deaths. He thinks that fate is cruel to him, for taking his life in this direction, but he manages to calm himself by taking walks on the heath. Being on the heath comforts him, and he is thankful that he is where he belongs. دعوواتكم
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