• One of the chief characteristics of Hardy's work is dominance of women's characters in his fiction.His deep sympathy for women lies in the emotional rendering of their sufferings in society. Women in Hardy;s novel struggle to acheive self- fullfilment in the society deeply enterenched in the Victorina concept to male supermacy and women submission.
  • Hardy's novels are love stories, dealing with the relationship between of two sexes, these relationships are not only married by internal jealouses and rivalries, class differences and economic circumstances but also by the various gender based concepts and idealogies of the society.
  • Hardy's novels show preoccupation with tragic themes which developed in his later work into something that might be called tragedy