Abstract
Thomas Hardy, a great Victorian novelist, made his fiction an instrument to launch a revolution against social injustice. He raised his voice against inequality with reference to class and gender. Though a considerate literary material is available on different aspects of Hardy’s art but this article attempts to reveal those realms of Hardy’s fiction which are not yet explored. His stories relate the issues such as gender, class, social evils and psychological disorders, etc. This paper aims to condemn the stereotypical relationship between community and individual with reference to Hardy's major novels. The paper deals with the relationships between individual and community, man and woman and upper and lower classes that are marked with clash in Hardy's novels. This article is an endeavor to explore the long-neglected features of Hardy’s novels concerning the condemnation of inequality with reference to class and gender issues. His attitude towards modern civilization, class, gender is drenched with clash and conflict. In this way this paper is going to highlight that the clashes and conflicts being an inevitable part of social life are the characteristic features of human civilization. The present investigation has found that disorganization and disintegration within social order are the result of the continued neglect of conflicts.
Fouzia Rehman Khan, Saima Manzoor. (2018) CONFLICTING STATE OF ISSUES IN HARDY’S MAJOR NOVELS, Journal of Social Sciences & Interdisciplinary Research, Volume 7, Issue 2.
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