fatalism and tragic atmosphere in Hardy s Tess of D Ubervilles
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Abstract:
Fatalism and tragic atmosphere were expressed in most of Thomas Hardy's novels. He injected ancient Greece's "tragedy of fate" and Shakespeare type "tragedy of personality" spirit into "novel of Wessex". "Tess of D'Ubervilles'' was one of his masterpieces. Through the analysis, this paper would discover how Hardy created fatalism and tragic atmosphere in his "Tess of D'Ubervilles".
Introduction:
In the English literature, especially in the 19th century, many literary lights sprang up like the bamboo shoots after a spring rain, Thomas Hardy, was regarded as a great talent on giant men's shoulders. His works provided readers with the vivid pictures of the 19th century. He was born in Dorset on June 2, 1840, in the center of Wessex country. When he was in London, his thinking changed greatly because he saw snobbery and egoism were prevailing in London. Then he changed his belief from traditional Christianity to fatalism which he accepted in childhood, and had his own idea about life and cosmos. He believed there was a superpower, which took charge of the human life and fate in the universe...