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The Biblical Analysis of The Return of the Native
ZHANG Liu, HUA Yan
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DOI:10.17265/1539-8080/2017.04.009
University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai, China
The Bible is an important source for the composition of American and English literature works, making them vivid, fruitful, and pregnant. The Return of the Native, written by Thomas Hardy (1955), which possesses strong religious color, quotes many biblical prototypes and biblical concepts to help the construction of characters, and reveals the view of Hardy to the Bible. Thus, this paper focuses on the quotations of the Bible in The Return of the Native to debate about the profound significance of Biblical quotations in character image, atmosphere creation, and artistic effect of the novel as well as what author wants to express.
The Bible, The Return of the Native, religious color
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