Part one of term paper
Thomas Hardy is probably known as a novelist, which is how he established himself from 1871 to 1896. He is associated with the English county of Dorset, which he fictionalized into "Wessex". He wrote Far From the Madding Crowd, The Return of the Native, and Jude the Obscure, for example. But Hardy's view of fate (which was often branded a "p ...

Part two of term paper
... two careers: one as a novelist, another as a poet. Hardy's poetry is an interesting blend of perfect, rhymed stanza structures and hard, blunt, modern ideas. The aim of my research work is to identify Hardy’s a vision, which becomes increasingly darker in his novel, Jude included. Irving Howe, describe Jude in the following terms: Jude the Obscure is Hardy's most distinctly 'modern' work, for it rests upon a cluster of assumptions central to modernist literature: that in our time men wishing to ...