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In Thomas Hardy’s poem “Her Dilemma,” it relates to book one of the novel Return of the Native in the concept of marriage and distrust of feelings. In both the poem and the novel, the woman’s feelings and emotions cause conflict in her mar ....

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.... It is pathetic that this is the last wish of a dying man. Hardy’s use of consonance allows the reader to understand the man’s feelings. Next stanza the tone changes again, to one of pity for the woman who sells her soul “to be a moment kind.” Regardless of whether the woman decides to marry, the man will die. Eventually, her sympathy for the man overwhelms her conscious and she marries him, leaving herself with a feeling of shame. The author’s tone presented throughout the poem is one of sorrow. In Return of the Native, the novel involves a marriage between Thomasin and Wildeve, two young adults who l ....