Symbolic Significance of Egdon Heath in The Return of the Native

her hand, if you are passionate, individual and willful, you will escape, and you will die, either of your own lack of strength to bear the isolation and the exposure, or by direct revenge from the community---Egdon Heath, or from both [Clym Yeobright, Eustacia Vye, Mrs. Yeobright and Damon Wildeve]. Hardy filled his mind with Darwinian thought----"a sense of Nature's 'passioned plans for bloom and beauty marred'" .9In his "Novels of Character and Environment", from The Return of the Native to Jude the Obscure, can be taken as exemplification of this viewpoint, he induced to the level where "Environment" manifest the "Character". In The Return of the Native, I mainly expose that Characters who rebel against the Environment (Egdon Heath), more or less, will be punished. Notes 1.Peter Widdowson. Hardy in History: A Study in Literary Society, P. 55. 2.General Preface to the Wessex Edition of 1912, (Great Britain: Hazell Watson &Viney Ltd., 1978). 3.Charles Leavitt. Thomas Hardy's The Return of the Native, (Foreign Language Teaching & Research Press, Simon &Schuster International Press Co., 1997), P.2. 4.General Preface s to the Wessex Edition of 1912, (Great Britain: Hazell Watson &Viney Ltd., 1978). 5.Peter Widdowson. Hardy in History: A Study in Literary Society, P.16. 6.Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native, (Foreign Language Teaching & Research Press, 1994), P.4. The following citations from the same edition will be marked with pagination in the parentheses in the paper.