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Thomas Hardy As A Novelist

Thomas Hardy was a novelist born in 1840 in Dorset, England. He set most of his novels in the rural Wessex region where he grew up. His novels focus on the relationships and aspirations of ordinary people, and often explore romantic relationships outside of marriage. Though he studied architecture, Hardy dedicated himself to writing after returning to Dorset for health reasons. He died in 1928 after a long career writing novels and poems that dealt with themes of disappointment and tragedy.

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Thomas Hardy As A Novelist

Thomas Hardy was a novelist born in 1840 in Dorset, England. He set most of his novels in the rural Wessex region where he grew up. His novels focus on the relationships and aspirations of ordinary people, and often explore romantic relationships outside of marriage. Though he studied architecture, Hardy dedicated himself to writing after returning to Dorset for health reasons. He died in 1928 after a long career writing novels and poems that dealt with themes of disappointment and tragedy.

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Thomas Hardy as a Novelist

Introduction:

Thomas Hardy was born on 1840 in the Dorest, which is the part of south
western area of England (which is known as Wessex). Most of Hardy’s novels are
set in his homeland which has railways, machines, illiterate laborers etc.

Unity of Time and Place:

As Hardy’s novels have been set in a small area, the characters live near one
another and often meet each other. They do not meet accidentally, but they desire
to meet each other always. By limiting the action of the novel to a small and
confined area, he creates a unity of place. Hardy in his novels does not try prove
anything. He believes that a novel should not argue a case for or against
something. But instead, it should be an impression that is the writer’s impression of
life. The impression of Hardy in “The Returning of the Nature” is that family
relationships are tragic and the people who try to rise above their class have to
suffer.

Human relation and aspiration:

Instead of criticizing the society, Hardy is interested in human aspirations


and relationship. Love marriage and family form the central themes of his novels.
Hardy was the first novelist to explore man woman relationship out of marriage,
which caused scandals in Victorian Age.

Hardy’s education plays a major role in the History of England Literature.


He trained him as an architect in Dorchester before moving to London in1862.
There he enrolled as a student of King’s College. He won prizes from the Royal
Institute of British Architects and the Architectural Association. Hardy never felt at
home in London because he was conscious of class division and social
inferiority.during this time he became interested in social reform and the works of
John Stuart Mill. After five years concerned about his health, he returned to
Dorset, settling in Waymouth and decided to dedicate himself to writing.

Final years of Hrady:

Hardy became ill with Pleurisy in December 1927 and died at Max Gate on
11th January 1928 having dictated his final poem to his wife on his death bed.
Hardy’s works were admired by many young writers including D.H.Lawarence,
John Cowper Powys and Virginia Woolf. Many of Hardy’s poems deal with
themes of disappointment. He wrote poems in a great variety of poetic forms
including lyrics, ballads, satires, dramatic monologues, and dialogues. He wrote a
number of significant war poems and also Hardy’s “Heroes and Heroines” are
specifically tragic in the Aristotelian sense because they elicit the requisite
responds of pity and fear.

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