She takes up with Wildeve, the most romantic figure that she can locate. Thus, from her very beginning, Eustacia feels like she has been wronged she feels like she is missing something.Įustacia s one great desire is to be loved to madness (Hardy 77) and she uses this to compensate for her lack of satisfaction. She is bored with her existence and she is incompatible with her community. (Hardy 76) Like Don Quixote (although not in a military sense), her mind is full of nothing but enchantments, quarrels, battles, challenges, wounds, complaints, amours, torments and abundance of stuff and impossibilities. There is no middle distance in her perspective: romantic recollections of sunny afternoons on an esplanade, with military bands, officers, and gallants around stood like gilded letters upon the dark tablet of surrounding Egdon. She is a native of fashionable Budmouth and had been forced to move to Egdon Heath thus, in her brain was juxtaposed the strangest assortment of ideas from old time and from new. The source of Eustacia s predicament is her Italian (in a literary sense) nature, her presence as a resented outsider, a rebel, a nonconformist.
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