Naturalism and its Nature in Hardy’s Works

Abstract

The English novelist Thomas Hardy tends to some extent to the tendency of naturalism within certain literary features. In addition to the features of naturalism in his works, he has some other features, though not contradictory, but is interwoven with literary works with an uneven rate. This paper aimed at the literary style of hardy novels in terms of naturalistic tendencies that tend to present their subjects with objective scientific positions and with detailed documents, often including frankness and almost hovering around the activities and physical functions that are not usually mentioned in the literature. The paper assumes that these novels do not tend to give great weight to the psychological complexity of characterization, i.e., an idealistic direction, a fictional form, or a presentation of an individual personality with a free will to find a very clear literary message. This is the same impression with the novels of Thomas Hardy in one form or another at least with the novels of Emile Zola and some writers of naturalism, later such as Frank Norris, Stephen Crane, Theodore Draiser and James Farrell. In contrast to these books, the book of naturalistic tendencies, Hardy tends to show these unnatural tendencies along with his natural characteristics, but in a balanced manner, where his modern literary sensitivity, which expresses itself in the depiction of loss, alienation and revolution, seems to be a literary enhancement Clearly in the works of Hardy. The paper sees Hardy's reality as a way of looking at life from its real perspective and portraying it with sincerity and objectivity, in contrast to the romance in which the writer portrays life as he wishes. It is a kind of revolution against the self, idealism, and sometimes ambiguity towards the romantic, but is also a kind of pursuit of literary objectivity and the employment of narrative work through the tendency of naturalism.