ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Throughout his works Hardy develops two main themes: the difficulty of being alive, because it involves being in a place and in an environment, surrounded by a set of circumstances which modify the individual existence. the Nature, which can be considered as a co-protagonist and it is indifferent to man’s destiny.

Detailed explanation-2: -Hardy’s idea of Fate seems to coincide with finding something or somebody to blame for human unhappiness. Because of his concern with human unhappiness and his instinctive need to find somebody responsible for it, chance and coincidence, nature, time, women and society are some of the things he puts the blame on.

Detailed explanation-3: -Index Terms-The Return of the Native, fatalism, destiny being overwhelmingly pessimistic about human’s position in the wild background of nature. The Return of the Native was regarded as the representative works which showed the dominance of Nature over Man, stressing the powerless man’s against the infinity of nature.

Detailed explanation-4: -Thomas Hardy was considered a fatalist. Fatalism is a view of life which insists that all action everywhere is controlled by nature of things or by a power superior to things.