Thomas Hardy’s Representation of Eustacia as the Sexual Stereotype in the Male Dominated Society in The Return of the Native

Abstract

In The Return Of The Native, Hardy’s Protagonist Eustacia Vye Materializes As A Single Body Which Makes Her A Unitary Sex Object. He Depicts That She Becomes Bound To Be Subordinate To The Patriarchal Power Relations. As A Narrative, He Shows Over-Generalized Statements About Her Women Characters. By The Term Over-Generalizing Femaleness, Hardy Represents Femininity As A Unified Entity To The Middle-Class Victorians. Women Also Make Them Object, Allow Males To Dominate Them. In This Novel, Thomasin And Mrs. Yeobright Are Submissive But Eustacia Rejects The Conventional Views Of Women And Expresses Dreams Of Paris By Marring Clym. She Is So Over Ambitious To Lead An Aristocratic Life. Thus, Hardy’s Generalization About Eustacia Presents Her As Representatives Of Her Sex