Hardy's Nostalgia Awareness And Evolution Ideas

Hardy's nostalgia complex came out of his oppressed wish in his early days, which helped to form his melancholy and sentimental quality, latent in his unconsciousness. His oppressed wish, in turn, added to his nostalgia a color of melancholy. It is in his works that Hardy's nostalgia resided. In emotion, he cherished a deep affection for the hard-working, simple, noble-minded and fair-minded people in the patriarchal society. That's why in his novels, he extolled the good quality of the people. He thought they were ideal people who derived much pleasure from their own ways of living. In ration, he assiduously looked into the society of modern civilization and people's fate in such a society. Under the influence of the Evolution Theory, he realized that it was an unshakable destiny for the capitalized society to destroy the patriarchal one. Out of his nostalgia and his deep sympathy for the Wessex people, it was unavoidable that this kind of melancholy was revealed in his works.This paper discusses on Hardy's nostalgia awareness and his realism social evolution ideas as shown in the environment, events, characters, artistic features and ideology in his novels. From Hardy's early life experience and the Freud theory about unconsciousness, I inspect the way for Hardy's nostalgia to come into being and the way for Hardy's nostalgia to be expressed, to state that the conflicts between his nostalgia for peasantry and his social evolution ideas is basically originated from his serious recognition and consideration on the essence and fate of the individuals. Each individual is amid the conflicts of his id, ego, and superego, and the mind is constantly in conflict with itself and the environment around it, and this conflict becomes the primary cause of human anxiety and unhappiness.