Volume : IV, Issue : VII, July - 2015

Social Ostracism in the Novels of Thomas Hardy

Soumya Mathew Kutty

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Thomas Hardy was a renowned English novelist and poet whose literary career extended through Victorian and modern periods. He is celeated as a writer of rural life and his novels are set in a fictitious area named Wessex which really indicates the south western region of England. His well known novels are ‘Jude the Obscure’, ‘Tess of D’Urbervilles’, ‘Far from the Madding Crowd’ ‘The Mayer of Casteridge’, ‘The Return of the Native’ etc. The central themes of his novels include the human being’s bonding with the society and the agony of alienation caused when that bond is severed off. The society in Hardy’s novels is fiercely conservative, intolerant and often pitiless towards those who deviate from its fixed code of conduct. The paper attempts to analyze various aspects of the rustic society presented in Hardy’s novels, focusing on its tendency to isolate its members for certain frailties in their character and conduct.

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Soumya Mathew Kutty Social Ostracism in the Novels of Thomas Hardy Global Journal For Research Analysis, Vol: 4, Issue: 7 July 2015

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