. While we take an attempt to peep into Hardy's philosophy of life , we must bring into account the role and function of chance, co-incidence and accident in a noble of Hardy, we should certainly look into Hardy’s pessimistic cum tragic vision of life .To Hardy ‘happiness is but an occasional episode in a general drama of pain’. Fatalism and its predominating influence on human life are the other factors that lead Hardy to conclude that life is summation of chance, co-incidence and accident. Irony of fate, situation and environment as expounded in Greek tragedies recur in Hardy’s novel. Hardy’s penetrative vision could read the heart-beat of fate and there by he did not find any surety and security in man’s life.
“The Return of the Native” in particular and the other novels in general exhibit the concept of fatalism through the instrument of fate,- as chance, co-incidence and accident. The major character’s of ‘The Return of the Native’, - we may mention Eustacia and Wildeve and with some extent the minor characters, like Thomasin and Mrs. Yeobright, simply become the prey of Egdon who symbolizes first of all fate of Greek tragedy and secondly ‘nature incarnate’.
Egdon, the fate of puts traps on the ways of the aforesaid characters that show sense, intellect feeling, whim or disgust of their own. The devices chance, co-incidence and accident in this novel are in the hands of Egdon just as the rope or string remains in the invisible hand of the puppet dancing master who at this will alters, moves, and shifts these puppets in a stage. Life is a stage and fate controls, guides, and moves human beings as she wills. And understudy of Hardy’s novel ‘The Return of the Native’ presents before us the following chances, co-incidence and accident.
Expect the characters ,- Eustacia , and Wild eve all other characters are rustics .They are the product of Egdon .These two characters are foreigners . Clym ,-the hero of the novel is sin to the soil .
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