Thomas Hardy The Woman Question Analysis

CONCLUSION

The aim through the dissertation is the study of the question of female characters in Thomas Hardy’s creativity and to consider the reasons behind his renunciation of novel writing and his choice of verse at a late age, though being well admired and more read as a novelist than as a poet. It is meant to reveal how Hardy dealt with “the woman question” in his poetry and whether he kept on defending, sympathizing and representing women especially the ‘fallen’ ones as being pure, innocent, wronged and victims of society and its double standards.

In a word, the aim of the dissertation is to shed light on women and the position they held in the works of Thomas Hardy. The study was carried

We intended to show the change of women’s conditions as represented by both earlier and later novelists and poets and how the latter viewed women and represented them in their major works. We have referred to some of their writings to find out how they manifested women essentially married women, the fallen women and prostitutes. We also gave general insight over Hardy’s poems to find out how he portrayed his heroines the fact that led to his being called a feminist writer. The aim through this study is to show Hardy’s position among the representatives of his age. We found out that like his contemporaries, Thomas Hardy was strongly concerned with the plight of women, but, unlike the writers of his age, the portrayal of events and the expression of ideas and opinions were done with overtness and clearness.

In the third and last chapter of this work, we have investigated the female characters and the question of woman`s fate through Hardy’s novels.

Then, we moved to speak about the “Question of Woman`s Fate in Hardy`s “Tess of the d`Urbervilles”, the tragedy of a pure woman and fate as a main theme in “Far from the Madding Crowd”, pastoral elegy.

We have selected some of Thomas Hardy’s poems that deal with the subject of women. We have also analyzed the poems and focused on the female characters in them. The themes that were discussed were various, for instance, women and honor, dignity, desire, being a victim of harsh conditions and social institutions, marriage, freedom, faithfulness, innocence, self-respect and at last woman’s sense of