The Impact of Surroundings on the Characters in Thomas Hardy’s Novels

Abstract

The  THE  IMPACT  OF  SURROUNDINGS  ON  THE  CHARACTERS  IN
THOMAS HARDY’S NOVELS†is to apply the writers’ knowledge on literature and to
show    their  interest  in    reading  novels.  The  writers transfered not  only    their limited
knowledge in analysing novels as literary works but also building the awareness of the
importance of reading habit  to their students of Unswagati because all of them take the
subject  of  Introduction  to English  Literature.    Reading  and  analyzing  novel  is  really
beneficial  for  students that    both  can  improve  the  students  reading  skill  but  also  their
English  ability,  moreover,  they  will  have  the  ability  in  criticizing  the  novel  from
different  views.  In  brief,  it  will  also  improve  their  critical  thinking. Afterwards,  by
describing the  characters  and  their  attitudes  toward  each  other  and  how  the
surroundings influence them, we also learn about their culture. The theory that is used
in analysing those novels is from Harvey, Murphy, Klarer, and Lodge. The method that
is applied in analysing the characters and the surroundings is descriptive qualiative in
which the writers take the data by reading the three novels, explain in details about the
characters  and  the  surroundings  involved  in  the  story and  some  other  elements
supported the completeness of the story.