Marriage, Vocation and the Individual A Feminist Approach to Thomas Hardy’s The Return of the Native. الزواج‘الواجبات‘والفرد دراسة من المنظور النسوي في رواية ثوماس هاردي عودة المواطن The Return of the Native

الكرزون, عوني (2005) Marriage, Vocation and the Individual A Feminist Approach to Thomas Hardy’s The Return of the Native. الزواج‘الواجبات‘والفرد دراسة من المنظور النسوي في رواية ثوماس هاردي عودة المواطن The Return of the Native. Al-Aqsa University Journal (Humanities Series), 9 (2). pp. 109-129. ISSN 2070 - 3147 (Print), ISSN 2518-5810 (Online)

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Abstract

Many female characters in Thomas Hardy’s novels distinctly demonstrate the Victorian stereotypes of women: the conventional, obedient housewife or the defiant, liberated dreamer. Hardy does not illustrate how women should be, but rather how society forces women to adapt to the accepted perception. The objective of this paper is to expose the themes of marriage and vocation in Thomas Hardy’s The Return of the Native . In fact, Hardy’s overall treatment of men-women relationship within a general feminist or rather thinker’s perspective is a topic demanding much closer attention than it has received

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