Thomas Hardy : Fate, Exclusion and Tragedy

Thomas Hardy : Fate, Exclusion and Tragedy

[@francesbrisco776]

One of my favorite author's

[@seuradu8065]

The first book I read from the library was Thomas Hardy's-A Pair of Blue Eyes

[@algie-t2w]

The criticism is that he is so pessimistic but life for many people was and is a sad business.

[@ukrandr]

The pessimist is rarely disappointed, while the optimist often is.

[@mahamatmahamatabdoulaye893]

​@@ukrandrthat's beautiful and sadly true

[@themanyshadesofus7763]

I am not sure if it was always a criticism of him as much as an accurate reflection on much of his work. Perhaps there was a romantic ideal in his time regarding tragedy and melancholy... now we diagnose and treat that perspective.

[@ukrandr]

@@doreekaplan2589 I don't COMPLETELY agree, but I'll leave it at that.

[@themanyshadesofus7763]

He is my favorite author, too, but did he have to go as dark as he did in Jude the Obscure to make his point? He hammered his point mercilessly.

[@TheMusicianTom]

I have links to Dorset and Hampshire. I’ve read several of Hardy’s novels

[@ananonym1617]

Jude The Obscure, is there a more accurate telling of a life unlived, merely through accident of birth? This is a sad story to which Hardy brought his powers of observation and depth of understanding.

[@themanyshadesofus7763]

It was way more than sad...Mayor of Casterbridge was sad, Jude was devastating...nightmarish...the spectacle that he painted with words. 😢

[@Al-iv3mb]

A brilliant author and poet, I love Hardy, but he really was an old miserablist, even his comic novel, The Trumpet Major, had to have a downbeat ending

[@algie-t2w]

The loving poetry wasn't much good to Emma after she was dead and gone.

[@claresmith9261]

Poetry is all about you not the other person so even though we write it about someone else it’s really all our thinking