Thomas Hardy was born in Higher Bockhampton, a village of a hamlet, in East Decaturshire, England. Hardy's father Thomas was a mason in the profession. Due to a financial problem, he left school after 16 years old. Later he started working as an apprentice to a local designer named James Hicks. He was then admitted to King's College in London.
Thomas Hardy's first novel 'The Poor Man and the Lady' is never published. He could not find any publisher. Then her friend, author Meridith advice to spoiled the manuscript. Meridith said that there may be problems if the novel is published because of controversial political issues. Then two novel of Hardy Despatette Remedies (1871) and Under the Green-Wood Trees (1872) were published anonymously. Within a few days, poet and singer Hardy appeared as one of the main novelists of the time.
Through novel-story-poetry, he has highlighted almost all aspects of contemporary variable society. In Victorian society, in particular, unravel the ugly look of the underprivileged mask of people. For that reason, his most representative work was "Tess of the d'Urbervilles" and"Jude the Obscure" two of them were widely criticized. At this time, he stood on behalf of science during the dialectical period of science versus religion. In 1869, Darwin's On the Origin of Species book was published he read this book as soon as possible. The apparent effect of this lesson is in the next novel.
In Hardy's novel, the English countryside lands the landscape he describes beautifully. He himself grew up in Dorchester. In Hardy's most novel, the surrounding locations of Dorchester were accepted as a backdrop. In the novel of the story of D'Urbervilles, Stonehenge historic place has special significance.
There was a tough law for marriage and divorce in British society. Hardy criticized him harshly. He wrote in a local newspaper in 1912, "The English marriage laws are ... the gratuitous cause of at least half of the misery of the community." In the novel "Jude the Obscure", he highlighted the negative impact of the current marriage lawsuit in Victoria. Hardie herself married twice. He was not happy in his married life. According to England's law, before marriage, women had equal rights on all property. But after marriage, all rights on the property could have gone on the husband. Husbands were able to beat wives by showing reasons according to law. In the case of divorce, there was a tight law. The wife had to prove the love of an orthodox or a stranger. It is also a complex and costly legal process. It is rather easy and hassles free to sell the wife. Hardie showed that in the novel "The Mayor of Casterbridge". In the novel, Michael Hitchcart sold his wife auction. In 1913, this tradition was abolished during Hardie's lifetime.
Modern English literature pleased from Hardy. Famous writers, such as Virginia Woolf, D.H. Lawrence, and Robert Greaves, were influenced by his novels. Likewise, many famous poets Robert Frost, Ezra Pound, Dylan Thomas, were influenced by his poetry.
Dylan Thomas's statement about poet Hardy is that "One could never write a poem dominated by time as Hardy could."
Hardy expressed nearly 900 poems from 1898 to 1928. Through this vast number of poems, he is also a unique figure in world literature as a poet.
At this stage, we can learn a little about Hardy's literary tone and his literary tendencies and contemporary society-reality. In this case, we can choose the novel Tess of D'Urbervilles (1891), one of his greatest productions. Based on the novel, the film "Tess" was created by the famous director Roman Polonsky, in 1979. The film has won Oscars in 6 divisions and won 3 divisions.
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