Thomas hardy biography summary worksheet pdf

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I. Introduction

A. Thesis statement: biography:

In “I Said to Love,” “The Voice,” and “The Dead Man Walking,” Thomas Hardy uses

repetition, hyperbole, and imagery to reinforce the themes of untouchable love, flaw of love,

and death’s penalty.

II. Body Paragraph #1

A. Topic sentence: Thomas Hardy uses repetition in “I Said To Love” to describe the

theme of “Flaw of Love.”

B. Supporting evidence:

i. (Stanza 1), He remember the old days with his wife, which mean he really her a lot.

ii. (Stanza 2-3), The persona don’t want her to have pain, this could be said that his

wife might have a sickness that can lead to death, after her passed away, the persona

think that the world is so cruel without her.

iii. (Stanza 3), now he can accept what happen to her

B. Clincher sentence: Repetition was used for describing the pain he has without his

lover.

III. Body Paragraph #2

A. Topic sentence: In “The voice”, Thomas Hardy uses hyperbole to reinforce the

theme of “Untouchable Love.”

B. Supporting evidence:

i. His biography when he first met Emma Gifford, a wife of Thomas Hardy

ii. (Stanza 2-3, line 5-12), The persona really miss her, but she has gone(pass

away) already. (Hyperbole = “Standing as when I drew near to the town /

Where you would wait for me: yes, as I knew you then” (lines 6-7) and “You

being ever dissolved to wan wistlessness” (line 12)

iii. (Stanza 4, line 13-16), The persona kept looking forward and keep walking

even how pain he have in his heart. (Hyperbole = Wind oozing thin through

the thorn from norward,

And the woman calling.)

C. Clincher sentence: Hyperbole was used for depicting how much he love his wife.

IV. Body Paragraph #3

A. Topic sentence: Thomas Hardy uses imagery for comparison to express the theme

of “Death’s Penalty.”

B. Supporting evidence:

i. (line 1-8), the persona imply us about the place that t

Mrs. Baddouri

‘The Son’s Veto’ (1894) by Thomas Hardy

Thomas Hardy

Thomas Hardy was born on the 2nd of June, 1840 in Dorset, England. His father
worked as a stonemason. Jemima, his mother, educated him. After finishing his
studies at Mr Last’s Academy for Young Gentlemen in Dorchester, he could not
afford university education because of his family’s social position. At the age of
sixteen, he started learning architecture. In 1862, he attended the King’s College
in London. The Royal Institute of British Architects and the Architectural
Association awarded him prizes.

Sophy’s uneasiness in London in his short story ‘The Son’s Veto’ reflects Hardy’s
state of mind when he had been in England. Being the victim of class
consciousness in London, he began to feel his social inferiority, the same
inferiority that Sophy feels. Social reform became the writer’s point of interest
then.

Writing poems was Hardy’s focal point in his career as a writer and he thus
considered himself primarily a poet. His success as a novelist came first with ‘Far
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from the Madding Crowd (1874), ‘The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886) and ‘Tess of
d’Urbervilles (1891) and so on. The 1950s gave him recognition as a good poet.
He criticized the Victorian society a lot being a novelist, a poet and a short story
writer.

‘The Son’s Veto’’ (1894) depicts Hardy’s disapproval of the 19 th century society
which stands on hollow social rules and mores. The short story shows the writer’s
belief in criticizing social constraints of the Victorian period which give more
importance to rules at the detriment of happiness. Sophy’s death at the end,
reveals how her son Randolph, a representative of the higher class, condemns his
mother to die slowly in pain and sorrow bearing the title of a lady, rather than
allowing her to marry Sam, the shopkeeper.

In ‘Two on a Tower’, Hardy presented a love story transcending the barriers of

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THOMAS HARDY (1840-1928) was an English author. His most famous works include Tess of the D'Urbervilles, Far from the Madding Crowd, Jude the Obscure, The Mayor of Casterbridge, and The Return of the Native. The quotation included in this poster set is, “The beauty or ugliness of a character lay not only in its achievements, but in its aims and impulses; its true history lay, not among things done, but among things willed.”

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