토마스 하디의 '진화적 개선론'에 대한 연구 : [테스]와 [박명의 쥬드]를 중심으로 = Evolutionary Meliorism in Thomas Hardy : Centered on Tess of the D'urbervilles and Jude the Obscure

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Thomas Hardy's pessimism seeks to bring the true life to light, and his eagerness to make a clear life struggles to attain the conquest of tragedy and save man from sufferings. So increasingly Hardy tends to see an opposition between spontaneity of nature and legal rigidities of social institutions and conventions. He, therefore, presents an evolutionary meliorism in his nove In his later novels, Hardy frequentry introduce Mills' first cause and Schopenhauer's pessimism. For this reason Tess, the innocent victim of a seducer, is executed to give the reader an eteral feeling of grief amd Jude is cruelly destroyed but also aligned with some of most austere of moralists and enabled, agnostic though he was, to persist in the assertion of such traditional and officially Christian values as charity and what he himself called "loving kindness" at a time when those values were undergoing erasion and vulgarization, and when he himself was being vilified for their betrayal.
Hardy develops, however, an evolutionary melioristic view of the world, believing that human immorality can eventually be overcome to hopefully make people's thought and the world better. In his last novel, Jude the Obscure, he therefore writes "where Jude ends, the rainbow begins."