- experimentation and individualism became virtues, where in the past they were heartily discouraged
- the pursuit of the American dream
- America = new Eden
- optimism
- importance of individual
- construct work out of fragments, omitting the expositions, transitions, resolutions, and explanations
- stream-of-consciousness technique
- westernization
- class wars
- democracy
- mass literacy and education
- public institutions
- questioning of of a god
- emancipation of women
- want to change the way readers see the world and to change their understanding of what language is and does
- attempts to find depth and interior meaning beneath the surface of objects and events
- attempts to reveal profound truths of experience and life
- places faith in ideas, values, beliefs, cultures, norms of west
- use myths as organizing structure
- superiority of art to nature
- emphasis on alienated individuals
Connections to The Return of the Native:
- Eustacia Vye and Clym Yeobright are very individualistic; they do not try to conform
- Wildeve views America as his saving grace, his garden of Eden
- Diggory Venn stays optimistic in his attempts to bring Thomasin a happy life
- Eustacia is free from most typical responsibilities of a woman
- "class war" between Eustacia and the heath; she is too good for anyone there
- Eustacia believes in fate, not necessarily God
- Clym wants to encourage education and such
- Clym and Eustacia are both alienated individuals
- Hardy used many illusions to myths and legends
- Hardy originally omitted happy resolutions in his plot
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