Born in Higher Brockhampton, England, Thomas Hardy's passion for writing began at a poised young age. As time passed and Hardy's writings were idealized, he never expected the controversial blow that came with the publication of his last novel, Jude the Obscure. Jude the Obscure created so much controversy, it influenced Hardy to stop writing novels and focus mainly on poetry. Hardy's book was said by critics to be the most immoral, religion-displaced novel ever written by an English author. It is said that Jude the Obscure is, if not, a direct replica of Thomas Hardy's personal experiences and failures. And throughout all famous literary collections, Jude the Obscure remains on the most remembered and talked about novels in literary history.
             Thomas Hardy grew up in the small village of Higher Brockhampton, England on June 2nd, 1840. It was a rural, traditional, and everything country in its rituals and speech. As a young boy, Hardy was adequately at home to absorb unspoken assumptions of the traditional Dorset culture, which was changeless and unaffected by history or technology. Similar to the American ways of the Amish community. His father was a stone mason and satisfied with rural life and his mother, a stay home mom, like most women that day in age, encouraged Hardy to get an education and raise his social status. At age twenty-one, Hardy went to London, England to continue his study of architecture. Once there, he was influenced by the publication of Alqerman Charles Swinburne's Poems and Ballads to begin writing poetry and getting them published. Hardy received little success for his early poetry and anonymously published two books by names of,
             Desperate Remedies (1871) and Under the Greenwood Tree (1872). Thomas Hardy then published Far from the Madding Crown, The Woodlanders (1887), the two volumes of
             short stories, Wessex Tales (1888), and Life's Little Ironies (1894) and re...