The face of nature in Tess of the D’Urbervilles

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3 pages

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.doc

Published date :

07/10/2009

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Table of Contents The face of nature in Tess of the D’Urbervilles Table of Contents

 
  1. Introduction: The avatar
  2. Druids and holy-days
  3. The face of the face of nature
  4. The sacrifice of nature to religion and society
  5. Conclusion

Abstract

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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