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1.It is under this statement that the book is written and indeed, the book has done more than enough to help teenagers on their ways. Critics may claim that this book is too brief on some philosophical issues and has left too many important philosophers untouched. Yet face it; with the book over 300 pages already and in this age when students are opting for computer games but not reading, it is more important to arouse their interest than to provide for them dry, dreary and detailed reports. All in all, I believe that Sophie’s World is a rare thoughtful book aiming for youth readership in the market.
2.This points to an essential contradiction in Hardy; although he was radical in many ways, he also had a strong conservative tendency. This conservative tendency is clearly seen in his desire to record the culture of his native Dorsetshire; the depictions of life on Egdon Heath, the work, beliefs, festivities, superstitions, dialect and relationships between the heath folk in The Return of the Native intend to preserve ‘a vanishing life’. The Return of the Native was written during the happiest period of his marriage and with the sense of relief that he felt on returning to his native Dorset. It marked a departure in Hardy’s career as a novelist and is perhaps his most ambitious novel. It offers no easy solutions to the moral questions it raises, and the dramatic and passionate impression of life it creates is profound in its effect.