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.
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