Tragic Fates of the Characters in
Hardy’s Works
INTRODUCTION
Hardy is often regarded as a traditional writer. In him readers can see the influence from both the Victorian and modern literature. The three tragic novels The Mayor of Casterbridge, Tess of the D’Urbervilles, and Jude the Obscure show that man is always driven by a combined force of “nature”, both inside and outside….
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ChapterⅠA BRIEF INTRODUCTION TO HARDY
Hardy was born and brought up in Dorsetshire, a county in the southwest of England. Family conditions did not allow Hardy to receive college education, and beyond the most basic skills in mathematics and Latin he was self-taught….
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ChapterⅡAN ANALYSIS OF THE THREE CHARACTERS 2.1 Michael Henchard
The Mayor of Casterbridge, reveals the conflict in a deeper and fuller sense. It is a novel of nemesis. The hero Michael Henchard sells his wife and daughter in drunkenness…
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CONCLUSION
By setting those tragic characters in the novels, Hardy not only attacks the social hypocrisy, double standards, the church, the law and God, but also shows that human’s effort to alter the course of life is nearly impossible at that time…
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Bibliography
Moss, Joyce．World Literature and Its Times. USA: New Jersey Prentice Hall Inc, 2001．
Williams, Merry．A Preface to Hardy．Beijing：Peking University Press, 2005．
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