ought them back together once again. Author Henry Miller once said, "every man has his own destiny: the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him." A good interpretation of what happened with the characters of Thomasin and Damon, because even though they believed that their time together had ended, Fate proved them wrong by reuniting them in the end. As the most famous playwright of all time, William Shakespeare said, "it is not in the stars to hold our destiny, but in ourselves." Destiny, or Fate, is something which is predetermined and cannot and will not ever, by any person or thing. As for the characters in Return of the Native, their fates were something that they had no control over, and even though some of them benefited, and others didn’t, it was the only way which things could have happened for each and every one of them. It is evident that the plot would not have taken place the same without the presence of Fate, since the entire story is based on events which occurred because of this strange force. ...
