HUMANISTIC PESSIMISM IN THE MAJOR NOVELS OF THOMAS HARDY

Introduction: Thomas Hardy is one of the prominent novelist and poet of the late Victorian era, was born on June 2, 1840 at the village of Upper Bockhampton near Dorchester in Dorset. An essential tenet of Hardy's writing is the interconnectedness of human awareness and suffering. As described in the Wessex books, human misery is explained as the result of one's awareness being cut off from the natural world, from other people, and from one's own true identity. Hardy inherited the taste of reading from his mother. As a child, Hardy was born with a weak physique, but his brain and heart were powerful. A guy with a "old man's face" and a penchant for wandering through the woods and learning from the natural world made him a better person