Abstract Thomas Hardy is one of the prominent novelists and poets of the late Victorian era, was born on June 2, 1840 at the village of Upper Bockhampton near Dorchester in Dorset. In this paper , Thomas Hardy's Jude the Obscure (1891) and Tess of the d'Urbervilles (1891) will be examined for its naturalistic aspects (1895). The theoretical section examines naturalism in general and how it influences literature. The emphasis is also on Hardy's life and the whole experience that inspired his writing. The practical portion of the curriculum deals with the naturalistic elements present in these novels and their function in the development of their plots. Nature, the elements, fate, inheritance, and influence. "The interconnectedness of global...