I agree with the person who said that it's the writing that matters the most - not the story, or the characters or the tone. I get a lot out of Hardy (I've read Return of the Native, Tess, and Jude, and Jude is my top pick of the three - plus I actually visited his cottage in England nearby Egdon Heath has been reforested and is no longer a heath), but I wouldn't want to read him all the time (nor would I want to read Victorian novels all the time, or only fiction written in English, or even only fiction). One of the things that fascinates me about Goodreads is learning how different people approach reading. And society can punish them without mercy. People are considered sinners even if they don't have the fault of the "sin" or if they are not selfish and crafty like the "villians".
This happy ending could be possibly only for people of rich status.
He shows that people who are from middle class don't have a happy ending as Dickens, Austen and Bronte had shown. The contradicitons of society: while society promotes to be a good person and follow God's word, at the same time society doesn't follow it.Īlso some of its rules can oppose to the Natural and Divine ones. A reason of why his novels were a controversy and a danger to society.Īs you could see, his stories show hopelessness, depression and sorrow, but at the same time they show how society can totally crush an individual even though he/she tries to follow the society rules. However, Hardy's novels and stories challenge the society rules and mores of the Victorian era. Some examples, which are very very popular nowadays, are Dickens (Great Expectations, A christmas Carol, The Curiosity Shop, etc), Jane Austen (Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility), Charlotte Bronte (Jane Eyre). If the characters accepted they were wrong for not following the mores, then there was still hope for them to be in the path of happiness. In that era, the novels and stories which were acceptable to society and also passed to posterity without any problems were those which emphasize the good values and morals people should take, the rules society wanted to promote, that those things can lead us to the real path of happiness. Are you studying English literature?, if that's so then I hope my next explanation can be useful.
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