Part one of term paper
In Hardy’s “The Return of the Native”, Mrs. Yeobright and Clym Yeobright share a relationship filled with destruction and havoc. Hardy presents Clym and Mrs. Yeobright as two very similar characters. Both are extremely judgmental and narrow minded. They both share the same objective throughout the novel, control of Clym’s life. Cly ...

Part two of term paper
... best for Clym. She is very inflexible with her ideas: “Don’t you see that by the very fact of you choosing her you prove that you do not know what is best for you “(161). Clym, who possesses the same strong will as Mrs. Yeobright, refuses to grant her control. Charles Child Walcutt believes Clym and Mrs. Yeobright are prone for destruction: “What the facts show is a deep vein of self-destructiveness that runs right through the Yeobright family”(Hardy 492). He goes on to say that aspec ...