Death as Portrayed by Thomas Hardy An Existential Point of View

Abstract

Thomas Hardy profoundly concerned with all his novels within a lot of marks rooted his belief in the human condition, personal freedom and determinism, the attitude to God and religion, destiny, failed human relationships and in morality. He hadn't actually represented morality in his works but showed it in different social, philosophical and contextual aspects. This paper is working to develop literary investigation about mortality in some Thomas Hardy novels (14 novels). Death in Thomas Hardy had taken different shapes vary from novel to another, influenced by his unique experience and the morale social context that he intended to convey through his writings. David Cecil (1967:41) asserts that variations of death in Thomas Hardy novel illustrated by murder (crime), accident, natural death, and disease. The paper is sketching out the idea of death within three main categories; historical, political and social that has something in common; a universal thematic value, which is mortality, in other words, death involving people lives and whole community.