Publication Date

8-1972

Advisor(s) - Committee Chair

George McCelvey, Nancy Davis, Will Fridy

Degree Program

Department of English

Degree Type

Master of Arts

Abstract

Ihomas Hardy believed that each man should make his own philosophy, and he formulated his own system of thought under the influence of the Bible, the classics, certain of the philosophers, and the Wessex environment. The elements of his thought include religious and philosophical convictions, man's relationship to nature, social institutions, and Victorian limitations. The male characters of his novels set forth his thought just as his female characters reveal his emotions. They show the transition from his early traditional beliefs to his conclusion that the Immanent Will is the governing; force in the universe and that man's ultimate hope is in his own increased awareness.

Disciplines

English Language and Literature | Literature in English, British Isles

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