Tiful, perfect, kind and caring girl to a scarred вЂњirritable superstitious womanвЂќ. An example is when Gertrude changes from a very beau. вЂњThe thick clouds made the atmosphere darkвЂќ and it was only early after noon and вЂњthe wind howled dismallyвЂќ.Hardy also uses the weather to help him describe the changing of time like at the beginning of a paragraph.ДЄll the gossip was going on in вЂњwinterвЂќ and by the end of the paragraph itвЂ™s вЂњin the springвЂќ I think Hardy also uses the changing of the seasons as a sort of metaphor to symbolize the changing of the characters. An example of this is when Rhoda and Gertrude cross the heath to see Conjuror Trendle and Rhoda does not want to and вЂњwould have done anything to escape this enquiryвЂќ, the weather and the atmosphere reflect her dread of what will happen. He also uses the heath because it helps create atmosphere and because it is outside he also uses the weather to reflect the characters mood. Thomas Hardy uses natural settings to contrast with unnatural events or behaviour.The heath is used a lot because of this.

This makes you start to wonder what the story will be like. This gives two impressions, one of a nice cosy warm story, but it also gives the impression that fire is also connected with bad things like Hell and witchcraft. Thomas Hardy sets the story in the fictional village of Holmstoke. Thomas Hardy creates and maintains mystery and malignant, underlying forces by using symbolic descriptions of the setting, the atmosphere and the strange unguessable plot.

The wind was on the withered heath