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Julien Tanoé AFFI.

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It is said that every society has its history. And every history has its literature. In other words, every society has its literature. So, in its intrinsic functioning, a literary work rallies to its author and its society. The Victorian period is one of the controversial with the appearing of the Industrial Revolution which has brought lots of changes in the world under the reign of the queen Victoria (1837-1901). Thomas Hardy is one of the greatest writers of that period whose life as writer has not been easy because of the Victorian society beliefs in a literature qualified as dystopian literature. His novel, The Return of the Native evokes provincial mores through the lives of characters subjected to implacable destiny. The objective is to show how the characters suffer from a strangeness to the world in one hand, and how they faced the greater risk of alienation by an uncontrollable force. To better understand our work, sociocriticism from Bernard Duchet and psychocriticism from Charles Mauron are used.

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