ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

LITERATURE QUESTIONS

MISCELLENEOUS QUESTIONS

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Why is Thomas Hardy famous for?
A
As a Dramatist
B
As a Sonneteer
C
As a Novelist
D
As a Poet
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The poet and novelist Thomas Hardy is perhaps most famous for his powerfully visual novels, concerned with the inexorability of human destiny. His works unfold against a rural background drawn as an elegy for vanishing country ways, but which also provides much-needed comic relief.

Detailed explanation-2: -Thomas Hardy is best known for his novels, all of which were published in the mid-to late-19th century. His last novels, Tess of the d’Urbervilles and Jude the Obscure, are generally considered his finest. These works challenge societal mores with their sympathetic portrayals of the hardships of working-class people.

Detailed explanation-3: -Hardy is associated with pessimism, gloom, fate and tragedy. He is liberal but an evolutionary pessimist and an atheistic view that sees us as becoming doomed. Life is cruel and characters get trapped and there is even some bitterness. Yet there is a positive affirming attitude.

Detailed explanation-4: -Love, marriage, and family form the central themes of his novels. Hardy was the first novelist to explore man-woman relationship out of the marriage that caused a scandal in the Victorian Age.

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