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Rural figures are portrayed as integrated parts of the natural world, showing instinctive belonging, security, and an age-old pattern of life. Urban figures, uprooted from rural origins, cultivate detachment and Reason to counter loneliness, analyzing situations as extensions of the self and acting from rational conclusions. Hardy’s sympathy shifts from nostalgia toward recognizing rural involvement’s inadequacy against urban intrusion. 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 \nAugust,1969  \nAPPROVAL  \nMartin HallettName:  \nMaster of ArtsDegree:  \nImpression or Conviction:Two Kinds of Being in theTitle of Thesis:Wessex Novels of Thomas Hardy  \nExamining Committee:  \n(Michael Steig)Senior Supervisor  \n(Mason Harris)Examining Committee  \n(Jerald Zaslove)Examining Committee  \n(Edward Gibson)External ExaminerAssistant ProfessorDepartment of Geography  \nst2岛、19  \n## ABSTRACT\n\nThroughout the Wessex novels there is a profound pyschological  \ndivison between rural characters on the one hand,and urban characters onthe other.The difference is one between involvement and detachment;therural character is basically a part of the natural world in which he lives,and therefore evinces an instinctive sense of belonging,a confident securitythat comes of existing within an age-old pattern,The urban character,tornup by the roots from his rural origins,has been forced to develop the meansto combat the sense of aloneness that accompanies self-awareness -andtherefore he has acquired the power of Reason.Urban man has developedthe capacity to detach himself from the situ ation,to analyse it as an  \nextension of his own self,and then to act according to his rational conclusions.His reason clearly affords him a psychological superiority over rural man,who is incapable of separating himsclf from his experience.Urban(rational)man is able to perceive alternative courses of action that:constantly allowhim to choose whatever appears the most advantageous;detached from hissurroundings,he can often manipulate rural folk and their customs to suithis own selfish ends,since the latter have no resistance to such exploitation.  \nHardy's own attitude toward this conflict changes markedly as we  \nprogress through the novels;at the beginning,there is a powerful feelingof sympathy for rural tradition -we may detect a nostalgic feeling ofregret for the passing of a simpler,more primitive way of life.However,the experience of the novels quickly reveals the inadequacies of ruralinvolvement,particularly when challenge is made by urban intruders whopay little heed to the ways of the past.  \nHardy finds himself torn between the ideal and the real.Atfirst,rural life represents both aspects(in Under the Greenwood Treeand Far From the Madding Crowd),but gradually the alienatedconsciousness of urban man asserts itself,until Hardy is compelled toadmit the superior effectiveness of rational thought.Ultimately,urbanlife is posited as both ideal and real(in Jude the Obscure),but Hardydiscovers that illusion prevails here also;man cannot finally escape hisown nature.Thus there appears to be no escape;there can be no retreatinto a more ¹natural'instinctive way of life,and yet there appears to belittle hope of Reason alone.  \n# TABLE OF CONTENTS\n\nPage  \n## CHAPTER I\n\nIntroduction  \n1  \n## CHAPTER IIThe Countryside in Ascendant\n\ni)Under the Greenwood Tree27  \nii)Far From the Madding Crowd46  \niii)The Return of the Native69  \n## CHAPTER III\n\nThe Countryside in Descendant  \ni)The Mayor of Casterbridge102  \nii)The Woodlanders132  \niii)Tess of the d'Urbervilles145  \n## CHAPTER IV\n\nConclusion  \nJude the Obscure165  \nBIBLIOGRAPHY181  \n## CHAPTER I\n\nINTRODUCTION  \n\"Energy is the only life,and is from thebody;and reason is the bound or outwardcircumference of energy.  \nEnergy is eternal delight.\"1  \nWm。Blake。  \n\"It was unexpended youth,surging up anewafter its temporary check,and bringingwith it hope,and the invincible instincttowards self-delight.12  \nThomas Hardy.  \nThe pace was quickening;out of the philosophic bias of theAge of Reason had come as logical consequence the storm of activityknown to us as the Industrial Revolution.  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