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    Thomas Hardy was an English novelist and poet influenced by Romanticism. He had a difficult childhood, with an unhappy first marriage. His novels, like Jude the Obscure and Far From the Madding Crowd, explored themes of societal constraints on individuals and often ended tragically. Jude the Obscure portrayed the oppression faced by a man and woman in a relationship outside of marriage, ending with the suicide of their children. Far From the Madding Crowd followed the romantic relationships between farm workers and owners, with multiple deaths occurring by the end of the story. Hardy took a pessimistic view of society, religion, and marriage in his works.

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    Thomas Hardy was an English novelist and poet influenced by Romanticism. He had a difficult childhood, with an unhappy first marriage. His novels, like Jude the Obscure and Far From the Madding Crowd, explored themes of societal constraints on individuals and often ended tragically. Jude the Obscure portrayed the oppression faced by a man and woman in a relationship outside of marriage, ending with the suicide of their children. Far From the Madding Crowd followed the romantic relationships between farm workers and owners, with multiple deaths occurring by the end of the story. Hardy took a pessimistic view of society, religion, and marriage in his works.

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    THOMAS HARDYs PESSIMISM

    By-Ameer Sayyed

    INTRODUCTION
    Thomas Hardy (2 June 1840 11 January 1928) was an English novelist and poet. Lived rural Dorchester, England was recognized as major contributor to english novels. He was influenced both in his novels and poetry by Romanticism, especially by William Wordsworth.

    EARLY CHILDHOOD
    Thomas Hardy did not had joyous start that many firstborns bring to their expectant parents. On his delivery he was pronounced dead. A family of Hardy's social position lacked the means for a university education, and his formal education ended at the age of sixteen.

    YOUNG ADULTHOOD
    Thomas Hardy was married twice - his first marriage, long and mostly unhappy, was to Emma Gifford. They married in 1874. Emma died in 1912, and in 1914 Hardy married his secretary, Florence Dugdale, who later became his biographer. As a young adult, Hardy was exposed to ideas that made him skeptical about religious practices of the church, most pointedly, infant baptism.

    THOMAS HARDYs WORK


    Most of his novels had his own personal life experiences. Some of Hardys heroes and even heroines adopt his personal qualities and go through some of the same life situations that he did. Some of his works- Jude the Obscure - Far from the Madding Crowd

    Contd
    The poor man and the Lady. Under the Greenwood Tree. The return of the native The Woodlanders Wessex Tales

    Jude the Obscure


    CHARACTERS - Jude. - Arabella - Sue Bridehead - Little Father Time

    Contd
    Arabella tricks Jude into marrying her initially by telling him that she is pregnant. No other option for Jude but to marry her. Arabella leaves Jude after some period of time and Jude find her new love Sue Bridehead.

    Contd
    Seven years later, Jude and Arabella meet up again and she reveals to her still-legal husband that she gave birth to his son in Australia and that she wants him to take custody of the young boy called the Little Father Time. Jude, once again, because of the compulsion of society, agrees to do so.

    Contd
    The Little Father Time did not approved the relationship of his father and Sue Bridehead. In a climactic point in the novel, Sue and the three children are staying in a boarding house when Sue reveals to a nine-year-old Little Father Time that she is once again pregnant. This makes the Little Father Time more frustated.

    Contd
    He feels acutely the burden that he and his half siblings are upon their parents and takes responsibility upon himself to solve his parents financial struggles. The child is unable to live out a normal youthful life because of the oppression he feels from society Unable to take pressure Little Father Time hangs himself and his two younger siblings.

    Far From the Madding Crowd


    CHARACTERS - Gabriel Oak - Bathsheba Everdene - William Boldwood - Francis "Frank" Troy.

    Contd
    Gabriel Oak is a young shepherd He falls in love with a newcomer eight years his junior, Bathsheba Everdene, a proud beauty who arrives to live with her aunt. when he makes her an unadorned offer of marriage, she refuses; she values her independence too much and him too little.

    Contd..
    When next they meet, their circumstances have changed drastically. Gabriel is seeking for the employment in the Casterbridge but find none so he heads towards Shottsford . On the way, he happens upon a dangerous fire on a farm and leads the bystanders in putting it out.

    Contd
    The owner comes to thank him and that owner turns to be Bathsheba Everdene. Meanwhile, Bathsheba has a new admirer: the lonely and repressed William Boldwood. She told about how she accepted the offer of marriage from William Boldwood. When Gabriel rebukes her for her thoughtlessness, she fires him.

    Contd
    When her sheep was dying , she discovered that only Gabriel could help him. Therefore she begged Gabriel to join the job and their friendship was restored once again. At this point, the dashing Sergeant Francis "Frank" Troy returns to his native Weatherbury and by chance encounters Bathsheba one night.

    Contd
    Gabriel observes that Bathsheba is getting more interested in this guy Francis Troy and tells her that she would better of marrying with Francis Troy. Boldwood becomes aggressive towards Troy and offers him bribe to give up on Bathsheba. Troy pretends to consider the offer, then scornfully announces they are already married.

    Contd
    Bathsheba soon discovers that her new husband is an improvident gambler with little interest in farming. In fact, Troy's heart belongs to her former servant, Fanny Robin. Before meeting Bathsheba, Troy had promised to marry Fanny. On the wedding day, however, the luckless girl goes to the wrong church and this guy calls of the marriage for being left waiting in altar.

    Contd
    Some months later Troy found that Fanny died in child birth along with her baby. After seeing them dead he said to Bathsheba This woman is more to me, dead as she is, than ever you were, or are, or can be. There after Troy leaves. Bathsheba agrees to marry Boldwood as six years were more than enough to declare that Troy was dead.

    Contd
    Troy, however, is not dead. When he learns that Boldwood is again courting Bathsheba, he returns to Weatherbury on Christmas Eve to claim his wife. At this time Boldwood shoots Troy and he his dead. Bathsheba, profoundly chastened by guilt and grief, buries her husband in the same grave as Fanny and their child.

    Pessimistic View of Thomas Hardy


    Death in the end of each story. Thomas Hardy Pessimism towards - The Society. - The Church. - The Marriage.

    Conclusion
    Thomas Hardy is neither a complete pessimist nor optimist but having the cult of realism. Whatever he saw in his life he poured them out in his writing.

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