We watch their lives unfold with a mix ofapprehension and excitement, wondering all the while if the characters arefalling in love purely for the escape they offer each other or if theirfeelings are true. We long for Venn tofind love and Clym to find happiness. We feelEustacia’s restlessness and Thomasin’s earnest devotion. Each of the characters is wonderfully developed.

Add Thomasin’scousin Clym Yeobright, the man who catches Eustacia’s eye, to the mix and you’vegot quite the quandary. She in turn is in love with Wildeve, a restless self-centered man.He is torn between his feelings for her and his love for Eustacia Vye. Using his incrediblegift for lyrical prose he takes us into the wild land of Egdon Health.Diggory Venn, a local reddleman, is in love with ThomasinYeobright. She and Venn both begin working on Wildeve to make sure he keeps his promise to Thomasin.Damn this man can write tragedy! In this novel Hardy createsa love triangle (quadrangle?) that is both beautiful and disastrous. Yeobright can envision is for the postponed marriage to be duly solemnised as soon as possible. In former months she opposed her niece's choice of husband, and publicly forbade the banns now, since Thomasin has compromised herself by leaving town with Wildeve and returning unmarried, the best outcome Mrs. She is a good woman, if somewhat proud and inflexible, and she wants the best for Thomasin. Now, although he believes Wildeve is unworthy of her love, he is so devoted to her that he is willing to help her secure the man of her choice.Īt length, Venn reaches Bloom's End, the home of Thomasin's aunt, Mrs. Venn himself is in love with Thomasin, and unsuccessfully wooed her two years before. Thomasin, in distress, ran after the reddleman's van and asked him to take her home. Earlier that day, Thomasin had planned to marry Damon Wildeve, a local innkeeper known for his fickleness however, an inconsistency in the marriage licence delayed the marriage. His passenger is a young woman named Thomasin Yeobright, whom Venn is taking home. Although his trade has stained him red from head to foot, underneath his devilish colouring he is a handsome, shrewd, well-meaning young man.

Venn is a reddleman he travels the country supplying farmers with a red mineral called reddle (dialect term for red ochre) that farmers use to mark their sheep. When darkness falls, the country folk light bonfires on the surrounding hills, emphasising the pagan spirit of the heath and its denizens.

The narrative begins on the evening of Guy Fawkes Night as Diggory Venn is slowly crossing the heath with his van, which is being drawn by ponies. The novel takes place entirely in the environs of Egdon Heath, and, with the exception of the epilogue, Aftercourses, covers exactly a year and a day.

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