...ing Latin, French and German. Hardy left Dorchester for London here he started orking as an assistant-architect. It is the period 1862-1967 hen he read Spencer, Huxley, Shelley, Broning, Scott and Sinburne.tpar ttab Around 1870 Hardy returned to Higher Bockhampton. He began his first novel. SItitfs22 tldblquote Far from the Madding Crodtrdblquote SItfs22 1874 as the novel to establish Hardytrquote s reputation. Other novels ere 1878, SItitfs22 tldblquote The Return of the Nativetrdblquote SItfs22 1880, SItitfs22 tldblquote The Trumpet Majortrdblquote SItfs22 1886, SItitfs22 tldblquote The Mayor of Casterbridgetrdblquote SItfs22 1887, SItitfs22 tldblquote The oodlanderstrdblquote SItfs22 1891, SItitfs22 tldblquote Tess of the Dtrquote Urbervillestrdblquote SItfs22 .tpar ttab Thomas Hardy died on the 11SItfs22tsuper thSItfs22 of January, 1928 his ashes ere laid in the Poetstrquote Corner of estminster Abbey.tpar ttab SItitfs22 tldblquote Tess of the Dtrquote Urbervillestrdblquote SItfs22 is Hardytrquote s tragic masterpiece. It is the story of innocence and evil, of man and nature, of history and its relation to the present, concentrated on the fate of a simple country girl.tpar ttab Tess is the daughter of a poor villager of Blackmoor Vale, ho believes that he is the descendent of an ancient family, the Dtrquote Urbervilles. Tess is seduced by Alec, the rich son of a family that bears the name of Dtrquote Urberville. Tess give birth to a child ho dies after its baptism. The heroine leaves her native village later, hile orking as a dairymaid, she gets engaged to Angel Clare, the son of a clergyman. On their edding night, she confesses to him the seduction by Alec Angel, cruelly abandons her. She is once more thron in the arms of Alec Dtrquote Urberville. hen Tesstrquote s appeals to her husband, no in Brazil, remain unansered, she becomes, for the sake of her family, Alectrquote s mistress Clare, returning from Brazil and repenting of his harshness, finds her living ith Alec. Maddened by the second rong that has been done to her by Alec, Tess stabs and kills him to liberate herself. Angel and Tess run aay and Tess is arrested at Stonehenge, tried and hanged. The novel ends ith the phrase SItitfs22 tldblquote Justice as done, and the President of the Immortals has ended his sport ith Tesstrdblquote SItfs22 .tpar ttab Many novelists have set their scenes in real places, but in Hardytrquote s orks almost every step taken by his characters is taken along real roads the tons and villages, the hills, even many of the houses are identifiable. The half-real, half-imaginary land in hich Hardytrquote s characters and scenes are set in essex, a largely agricultural region hich designates the south-est counties of England, principally Dorset. This elementary and unchanged space is very important as it is knon that the background, nature and landscapes, is one of the most important elements in Hardytrquote s novels. Nature takes part in the action assuring the protection of the charactertrquote s feeling on a background of generality and eternity.tpar ttab Tess, the main character of the novel, is a simple innocent country girl, ho tries to escape her social background under the pressure of exterior circumstances she is forced to fight the principles of evil, embodied by Alec, but she cannot resist she sins, therefor she is punished. In the unequal fight beteen the natural and social forces on the hand and heroes on the other, the heroes are to lose in all of Hardytrquote s novels.tpar ttab Alec Dtrquote Urberville is the symbol of evil, the embodiment of the ickedness and unscrupulousness of the implacable orld in hich man is obliged to live.tpar ttab Angel Clare is neither SItitfs22 goodSItfs22 nor SItitfs22 badSItfs22 he is not daring and he is conservative, abandoning Tess in the most difficult moments. Hardy did not succeed in portraying him very ell, so he remains a rather vague character.tpar ttab SItitfs22 tldblquote Tess of the Dtrquote Urbervillestrdblquote SItfs22 is a third person narration because the narrator is exterior to the events, the narration unfolds objectively. tpar ttab Hardy as an author poerfully connected to essex, his native place, and this explains his skill in realizing some very impressive descriptions. One of these, supporting the drama of the characters, is that of Stonehenge, here the last episode of Tesstrquote s tragedy takes place. tpar ttab The Stonehenge scene illustrates once more the idea that in Hardytrquote s novels nature does not help the characters, but it only projects the human tragedy on the primordial axes. tpar SS...
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