Questions in Past Papers (PU) | The Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy | Eureka Study Aids

1. To what extent do you think are Fate and Chance an integral part of the tragedy in Hardy's work The Return of the Native? (2003) 

2. Hardy's Tragic Vision 1/2 (2003) 

3. How far may Hardy's The Return of the Native be described as a study in disillusionment? (2004) 

4. Nature as a Backdrop in Hardy's Novels 1/2 (2004) 

5. Through a series of events over which Clym has very little control, he come to feel responsible for the deaths of his mother and wife. Discuss. (2005) 

6. Edgon Heath symbolizes the whole cosmic order in which man is but an insignificant particle 1/2 (2005) 

7. Clym's blindness is a physical manifestation, a symbol of his intellectual obtuseness or social maladjustment. Discuss. (2006) 

8. The Role of Fate and Destiny in Hardy's Novels 1/2 (2006) 

9. Do you agree with Hardy that fate or destiny is indifferent and often hostile to human happiness? (2007) 

10. "Hardy's minor characters are grouped together without being fully individualized". Discuss. (2008) 

11. Hardy related human disasters to weakness and lack of will. He is not a fatalist. Discuss. (2008) 

12. "Hardy's minor characters are rich in the gathered wisdom of ancient days have have learnt to endure and accept." Substantiate with reference to Return of the Native. (2009) 

13. The Element of Chance in Hardy's Return of the Native 1/2 (2009) 

14. Critically examine the significance of Egdon Heath in Thomas Hardy's Return of the Native. (2010)

15. Hardy's Pessimism 1/2 (2010) 

16. "The presence of the vast passionless heath puts the human movements into perspective as the senseless hurrying of arts". Discuss with reference to Thomas Hardy's presentation of Egdon Heath in Return of the Native. (2011) 

17. Hardy's Fatalism 1/2 (2011) 

18. Discuss the fatalistic elements in Hardy's Return of the Native and highlight other elements of his vision. (2012) 

19. Egdon Heath is a symbol of an indifferent universe. Do you agree? (2012) 

20. 'Eustacia Vye is a born romantic of odds with her environment'. Discuss with reference to Hardy's Return of the Native. (2013) 

21. Hardy's chief weakness in plot arises from the view of causality. Substantiate with reference to Return of the Native. (2013) 

22. "Though born on the Heath, Eustacia was emotionally alien to it." Comment. (2014) 

23. Thomas Hardy's Concept of Tragedy 1/2 (2014) 

24. To what extent is Eustacia Vye responsible for the tragedy in Hardy's "The Return of the Native"? (2015) 

25. What role do superstitions, pagan culture and fantasy play in Hardy's "The Return of the Native? (2015) 

26. The Role of Nature in Hardy's "The Return of the Native" 1/2 (2015) 

27. "Hardy's picture of Wessex is the most elaborate study of landscape in English Literature". Analyze. (2016) 

28. Thomas Hardy's Pessimism 1/2 (2016) 

29. Is Egdon Heath a sinister force in Hardy's "The Return of the Native"? Why or why not? (2017) 

30. Function of Minor Characters in "The Return of the Native" 1/2 (2017) 

31. The tragedy in Hardy's "The Return of the Native" is "arbitrary and accidenta;", "unnecessary and uncalled for". Do you agree? (2018) 

32. How far are the characters in Hardy's "The Return of the Native" bound to the soil, shaped by it and shackled to it in equal measure? (2018) 

33. "The concept of Hardy's fatalism expressed in "The Return of the Native" is that human characters and action are the resultof the laws of heredity and environment over which man has no control". Discuss. (2019) 

34. Egdon Heath as a character in "The Return of the Native" 1/2 (2019)