onthomashardy(英语论文).doc

On_Thomas_Hardy(英语论文) Ⅰ. Background of Thomas Hardy Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)is one of the greatest English poet and novelist between the 18th Century and the 20thcentury(Victorian period).Hardy is famous for his depictions of the imaginary county “Wessex”. Hardy is a cross-century literary giant. Success has masked the Wessex novels left a profound impression. Hardy’s work reflected his stoical pessimism and sense of tragedy in human life.(women especially),and of deep changes of social economy, politics, ethic and custom after the invasion of capitalism into the English countryside and towns. They exposed the hypocrisies of the capitalistic ethics, law and religion, which inherited the excellent tradition of realistic criticism as well as exploited a road for English literature in the 20th century. Hardy kept cracking tragedies of Greek and Shakespeare with all his life, and was influenced by the skepticism of neoteric scientific ideology, so that his opinion towards life was pessimistic and fated, and he thought that on matter what kind of degree human society had developed, human being were unable to get rid of the tricks, coincidences were everywhere, nature’s tinge suffused around, environment served as a foil to the roles, and the roles’ characters were mixed up with the environment. These were ingenuities exerted by the writer, in addition, Hardy had worked as an architect in his early time, so his works were written with a style that could be relished again and again. The scenarios, characters and sceneries of Hardy’s works were so fine, perfect, compact and harmonic that few writers could compete with him. Ⅱ.Thomas Hardy’s Religious Beliefs 2.1 Profile Like so many other major Victorian authors, on his early stage, Thomas Hardy had an important Evangelical phase that left a deep impress on his thought. Examining the text of a sermon clearly marked by “Evangelical style and theology” that the eighteen-year-old Hardy wrote, we can concludes that it prov