LITERATURE QUESTIONS
MISCELLENEOUS QUESTIONS
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Tess of the D’Urberville
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Major of the Casterbridge
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Jude the Obscure
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None of these
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Detailed explanation-1: -Clym Yeobright, fictional character, an idealistic young man who returns from a stay in Paris to his home on England’s Egdon Heath, in Thomas Hardy ’s novel The Return of the Native (1878).
Detailed explanation-2: -Clym is intelligent, cultured and deeply introspective. He is patient and generous, but also deeply determined, and fierce when angered: it is this determination that leads to his eventual split with his mother, and separation from Eustacia.
Detailed explanation-3: -Hardy’s first novel, The Poor Man and the Lady, finished by 1867, failed to find a publisher.
Detailed explanation-4: -The entire action of Hardy’s novel The Return of the Native takes place on Egdon Heath, and it also features in The Mayor of Casterbridge and the short story The Withered Arm (1888). The area is rife with witchcraft and superstition.