Thomas Hardy's nature symbolism : a descriptive theoretical study

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This study aims to highlight the use of nature symbolism in Thomas Hardy's novels of Characters and Environment.

The study investigates one of Hardy's most accomplished writing techniques in terms of his symbolic employment of natural features.The importance of this study emerges from the fact that Hardy's attitude of story-telling, along with his nature symbolism, has recently come to be associated with eco-critical studies; which enhances eco-critics, as a literary genre, to find its right way to the modern literary criticism.

Hardy's nature symbolism has proved to open new horizons for environmentalism; he has drawn the world's attention to the importance of nature.

Accordingly, a great number of pressing groups are now starting to raise environmental issues in relation to global environment crisis.