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From: Monarch Notes
Date: 19630101
Author:Hardy, Thomas

Hardy, Thomas
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
Character Analyses and Critical Commentary

Character Analyses

Egdon Heath:

It is quite generally agreed that the heath is as strong a character as
any in the novel-probably the strongest. It is the unique force that touches
and molds all lives. The whole novel is played on Egdon Heath as on a stage,
and the heath, in its turn, plays upon all the characters, molding their lives
by its pervasive influence. H. M. Tomlinson in his essay in The Saturday
Review Gallery voices this sentiment: ". . . It may still be true that the
earth and the sky and the force we ...

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