Nature between Thomas Hardy and William Wordsworth as a ruling power and instigator

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This paper aims at bringing out the different treatments of nature by T.

Hardy and W.

Wordsworth, for both drew a natural canvas to nature.

Truly it is to read one of Wordsworth longer poems, was like a day spent in the country and the same could be said of the Wessex novels in Hardy.

The people of Hardy are filling nature with their movements, full of tumult of life, humbly went under its heavy foot without resistance, while the people of Wordsworth are calm and rather living silently.

The setting to both is in the country-side, for Hardy sings of the Wessex and Wordsworth sings of the District Lakes.

Nature and its elements in both productions act as characters.

They are accurate observer of man.

In Hardy’s novel there are frequent lapses into rigid philosophy of human destiny within the frame of living nature.

His novels are mostly pictures of human being struggling against fate and chance, while in Wordsworth characters are living with no struggle until fate itself invades their fortress.

As emotional connection is concerned, Wordsworth turns into nature for both solace and a deeper understanding of man.

Hardy’s characters were affected by nature through its gloom and somber philosophy which is: man’s lot is to endure in a malevolent universe.