The Return of The Native by Thomas Hardy?

Question

What method of organization or pattern of development was used within the structure of The Return of The Native by Thomas Hardy

Answer 1

People tend to call something boring or complex when they don't understand it. If you'll read any of Hardy's novels attentively, you'll enjoy them.

In Return of the Native, Hardy represents a bridge between Victorian ideals of decorum, elaborate appearances, and high morality and the Modern Period's ambiguity, bleakness, and lack of easy answers to moral and philosophical dilemmas. This novel is full of unreliable characters whose perspectives put together will create the story line, but no single character is fully reliable.

At the time of publication, this novel was serialized, meaning it was published in pieces and read similar to the way people now watch ongoing television dramas. It is divided into six sections, but it was likely published in twelve pieces, as novels tended to be divided. It's fairly chronological, but unlike most Victorian novels it takes place in the short span of a year (the Victorian tendency is to depict an entire life of one or more characters). Each section takes up a different sub-story of the novel featuring different characters on the heath, using the central motif of an autumn bonfire for each section. The action of the main characters is sometimes interrupted by stories about the lesser country folk, and these diversions provide somewhat of a comic relief from Hardy's otherwise fate-driven, chance-filled environment of the heath.

Give Hardy another chance, and channel that 21st century attention span to a slower pace. It's worth it!

Answer 2

i don't recall hardy doing anything crazy (aside from being boring, as noted, though i loved one of the characters... i can do without the furze), organisationally or developmentally, but i read it a long time ago. i recall a fairly simple narrative, with, perhaps, a great deal of flashback, and, maybe, a third person narrator, limited in their knowledge. i suspect most people will tell you to do your own homework, though.

Answer 3

basicaly Hardy bored the reader into submission

Answer 4

sabastion cabot