... tragedy with his " novels of character and environment" and his works have great influence on Victorian literature. The Wessex girl Eustacia, the mayor of Casterbridge, Tess of the d'Urbervills and stone-mason Jude, as described by Hardy, vibrate our heart with the profundity of tragic vision and intensity of tragic feeling. What on earth makes these tragedies so profound and rich ... its powerful role in frustrating human desires and aspirations" (Chen 429). Consequently, the heroes or heroines in his novels often cry about the fate when unfortunate things happen. When the child of the...

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