SIX POINTS ON THOMAS HARDY

                              

1.    Hardy is called the novelist of THE WESSEX REGION

2.    Hardy was honoured with ORDER OF MERIT

3.    Hardy believed in the philosophy of IMMANENT WILL

4.    It is said that the most important character in Hardy’s novels is not a person but a place. The place is EGDON HEATH

5.    Hardy gives to one of his novels the title “Far from the Madding Crowd”. He borrowed this title from Gray’s ELEGY WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCH YARD.

6.    ‘’As flies to the Wanton boys are we to the God,

   They kill us for their sport.”

These lines of Shakespeare have been quoted by Hardy in his novel Tess of the D’Urbervilles.