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Miserable And Merry Lives Of Trifle Characters

Posted on:2007-12-26Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:F X LiuFull Text:PDF
GTID:2155360185957491Subject:Comparative Literature and World Literature
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Thomas Hardy is an important Britain writer, novelist and poet. As a poet, Handy's poems are widely appreciated and praised, as a novelist, Hardy's long novels have the highest reputation within the range of the world, but his series of short novels have not drawn people's attention too much, which are usually swallowed up in the light circle of long novels. In reality, Hardy's short novels, the rhythms are swift, the plots are close, the characters'images are alive, the stories themselves are extremely readable, especially those various trifle characters are full of humanity's charming and glowing light.In many long novels, Hardy builds up a vast of grand and beautiful Wessex system, which is not only a place, but also contains natural views and customs. After entering industrial society, this original Xanadu has been impacted heavily so that the whole social structure is hiding the possibility of tragedies. Meanwhile, quiet and pretty countryside itself is also concealing a variety of crises, in which there are pure customs, kind folks and good original air, while are full of backward ideas, old customs, therefore Hardy himself is also full of contradiction with it.In addition, Hardy's short stories are wide spreading thick Wessex air and feeling, which show swift beauty due to lackness of that burden and seriousness though they are less grand than long novels. Most of the trifle characters in countryside entered our view because the stories more often happened in the countryside, who are the excellent persons written by Hardy, who showed us miserable and merry life of these trifle characters, in the meanwhile expressed his contradiction but passionate love to British old countryside.Under the large background of Wessex, the trifle characters are experiencing sadness, happiness, departure and meeting of their lives. In an unique style, although"Miserable merry lives"as they are, they are more sad, less happy, and some of the novels end in comedies, the readers are also at a loss about them. From Hardy's stories, we can see that whenever and which...
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