![]() ![]() Her appearance accorded well with this smouldering rebelliousness, and the shady splendour of her beauty was the real surface of the sad and stifled warmth within her. Egdon was her Hades, and since coming there she had imbibed much of what was dark in its tone, though inwardly and eternally unreconciled thereto. Her power was limited and the consciousness of this limitation had biased her development. She had the passions and instincts which make a model goddess, that is, those which make not quite a model woman.īut celestial imperiousness, love, wrath and fervour had proved to be somewhat thrown away on netherward Egdon. On Olympus she would have done well with a little preparation. Her motive for her impressive bonfire is certainly witchy she hopes it will summon her former lover.Įustacia Vye was the raw material of a divinity. Locals are unsure what to make of Eustacia intelligent, vain, pretentious, some even suspect her of being a witch. She hates the slow, quiet life on the heath and yearns for the glamour and sophistication of big cities of London and Paris. Eustacia grew up in a nearby town but, following the deaths of her parents, has since had to live on her grandfather’s estate on the heath. ![]() One burning particularly impressively is Eustacia Vye’s bonfire. One November 5th in 1840’s rural England, several bonfires are lit across the undulating hills and valleys of Egdon Heath to mark Guy Fawkes. ![]()
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