The document provides a summary of characters from Thomas Hardy's novel "The Return of the Native". It describes the major characters including Clym Yeobright, the native who returns home from working abroad; Diggory Venn, a reddleman who loves Thomasin; Eustacia Vye, who despises the heath but is passionate and marries Clym; Damon Wildeve, a lady-killer innkeeper pursuing Eustacia; Thomasin Yeobright, Clym's cousin who marries Wildeve; and Mrs. Yeobright, Clym's proud mother who objects to the marriages and dies on the heath. The character summaries concisely describe each

1. Subject: Novels A
Presentation topic : Characters list the return of the native
Personated to : sir Arif sb
Presented by : izaz Akbar khan
semester : Bs 4th eve
Roll no : 19090
Date : 14.12.2020

2. The return of the native
Written by Thomas hardy

3. introduction
 THOMAS HARDY (1840 – 1928)
 Thomas hardy was born on 1840 in England.
 Thomas hardy was Victorian era novelist and poet of modern age.
 He was published his novels in Victorian age.
 While Hardy wrote poetry throughout his life and regarded himself predominantly as a poet, his
first collection was not published until 1898. However, beginning in the 1950s Hardy has been
recognized as a major poet.
 Hardy was died at max gate, January 1928.

4. 1840 –

5. Major characters the
novel
The return of the native.

6. Clym yeobright
• The “native” of the novel’s title, clym is the son of Mrs.
Yeobright and the cousin of thomasin yeobright. He goes abroad
to work as a diamond merchant in paris, but comes home when
he realizes that his ambition is not towards material wealth. He
is pursued by Eustacia Vye, and eventually marries her, but their
marriage turans sour when her ambition to move to paris
conflicts with his plan to stay on Egdon Heath and teach school.
Clym is intelligent, cultured and deeply introspective. He is
patient and generous, but also deeply determined. At the end of
the novel, weakened by a degenerative eye condition and by the
trauma of losing her mother and Eustacia – for whose deaths he
blames himself – he becomes an itinerant preacher, sermonizing

7. Diggory Venn
 Throughout most of the novel. Venn works as a semi – nomadic “reddleman”. He travels
throughout the region selling the dye that farmers use to mark their sheep. As a consequence of
his exposure to the dye, his entire body and everything he owns are dyed red. Entirely red,
camping out on the heath in his wagon, and emerging mysteriously from time to time, Venn
functions as an Thomason eyebright's interests throughout the novel, but also preserves his own
interests: he has long been in love with her, and at the end of the novels they marry. Venn is
very clever and insightful, and can be a devious schemer.

8. Eustacia Vye
 Born in the busy port town of Badmouth and transplanted to Egdon heath to
live with her grandfather, Eustacia despises the heath, and searches for a way
to escape. However, even as she hates the heath, Eustacia seems to her deep,
brooding passion, to be a part of its wild nature. She has an amorous
relationship with damon wildeve, but enters into a tragic marriage with Clym
yeobright when she realizes that he is the more interesting, and urbane, of
the two men.

9. Wildeve
 A local innkeeper, Damon is described as a "lady-killer." At the start of the
novel, he puts off his marriage to Thomasin Yeobright in order to pursue a
relationship with the woman he truly wants, Eustacia Vye; when he is jilted
by Eustacia, however, he marries Thomasin, and has a daughter with her. He
drowns at the end of the novel just before making an escape with Eustacia.
He is interested throughout in possession rather than love.

10. Thomasin Yeobright
 Clym Yeobright's cousin and Mrs. Yeobright's niece and ward. Thomasin is an
innocent and goodhearted, if somewhat vacuous, woman who seems
genuinely to care for Damon Wildeve--who, however, is merely using her to
make Eustacia Vye jealous. She eventually marries Wildeve--over the
objections of her aunt--and has a child, which she names Eustacia. At the end
of the novel, she marries Diggory Venn, who has long loved her.

11. Mrs. Yeobright
 Clym Yeobright's mother, and Thomasin Yeobright's aunt and guardian. A
proper, class-conscious, proud woman, Mrs. Yeobright objects to the marriage
of both her charges; as it turns out, she is entirely correct. She dies when,
exhausted, she is bitten by an adder on the heath, believing that Clym has
utterly rejected her. The daughter of a parson, Mrs. Yeobright considers
herself--and is considered--of a higher class than the local laborers.