The Negative Perception of Women Status in the Victorian Society as Portrayed in Some Novels of Thomas Hardy

Abstract

This study aimed at investigating the negative attitude of the Victorian society towards women status which let the women to face tragic circumstances at the end. It mainly deals with the ill-treatment of women at the time, thereby literally analyzing the way the Victorian writer “Thomas Hardy” adopted in portraying the negative attitude prevailed. The researcher in doing so adopts a descriptive analysis of the two novels through collecting the data from the relevant tools of the previous studies such as the books, journals, and the novels under the study as primary sources. Having analyzed the novels, the researcher reached to a finding that Victorian women were severely made to face tragic fate out of the negative perception of the society and its ill-treatment of women. Having arrived at findings; the researcher recommends that the Sudanese society should develop ways to eliminate all forms of the negative attitudes and ill-treatment of women.