The face of nature in Tess of the DUrbervilles
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- Introduction: The avatar
- Druids and holy-days
- The face of the face of nature
- The sacrifice of nature to religion and society
- Conclusion
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A cruel realization overtakes the sensitive convert to Naturalism. Seldom has there been a more sensitive convert than Thomas Hardy, who, although he flirted with Anglicanism because of his family and with the Baptists because of a friend, ended his days with a troubled faith in the indifferent, all-powerful will of the universe itself. As a sensitive man-a poet, primarily, in his self-conception-Hardy struggled to salvage some nobility for humankind, some meaning for their blind-fated condition. In his worldview, however, humanity could never be something that transcended the natural order; men were always only one kind of life in a teeming cosmos. So in order for man to be ennobled, nature had to be ennobled (because a fragment of the whole cannot be nobler than the whole).
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