Research On The Native Complex Of Hardy’s Fiction From The Perspective Of Cultural Conflict

In the history of English literature, Thomas Hardy was one of the most important novelists during the phase of the late 19th and early 20th century. He lived through Victorian era to Edwardian era in the early 20th century. As a cross-century literary giant, Hardy’s literature creation and thought means a bridge in the development of the British Fiction——compatible with both the Victorian literary tradition and innovation of the contemporary British Literature.At the turn of 20th century, English capitalist society was transformed from agricultural society to industrial society. The conflict and the opposition of the culture mode between the traditional agriculture civilization and modern industrial civilization had appeared. Facing the deepening of cultural conflict, Hardy choose the most familiar countryside as the background of narrative, faithfully recorded the conflicts between tradition and modern, conservative and innovation in the Victorian British, depicting the decline of southern England country and its traditional agriculture under the industrialization wave, reflect Hardy’s thought to the survival and fate of human being and discussion on the humanity and humane, which reveals his respect for the old rural world and local civilization. He also expressed his aspiration and concerns about the new industrial civilization and social order. Fallowing the process of cultural conflict as the main line, this paper explores the native complex and evolution characteristics in prophase, metaphase and later works of Hardy’s "novels of character and environment", analyzes Hardy’s different writing stages of rural England reveals different emotional characteristics.This article is divided into five parts:The first chapter is the introduction, which discusses the significance of the selected topic and the research status at home and abroad.The second chapter mainly discusses the conceptual definition and theoretical explanation of cultural conflicts and native complex, specifically the three processes of cultural conflicts cultural conflict and confrontation, cultural crisis and cultural transformation, explains the cultural conflict’s effect on the birth of Hardy’s native complex.The third chapter focuses on the traditional culture, traditional values and harmony of social relations in Hardy’s early "novels of character and environment" Under the Greenwood Tree and Far From the Madding Crowd, exploring Hardy’s ideal pastoral and rural feeling of love at the beginning of the cultural conflict.On the basis of the study of Hardy’s mid-term works The Mayor of Casterbridge and The Return of the Native, chapter four reveals that with the deepening of cultural conflict and the emergence of cultural crisis, Wessex was facing its traditional culture, traditional values and all sorts of social relations crisis.These crises reflect Hardy’s depressed feelings to the English countryside.With a study of Hardy’s later works Tess of the Durbervilles and Jude the Obscure, chapter five analyses his paradoxical feeling towards Wessex and discusses the changes in Wessex’s traditional culture, traditional values and all sorts of social relations during the period of social transformation,. This part demonstrates Hardy’s reasoned native complex, expressing his grief to the Wessex countryside near the end.