Compromised female characters in Far from the Madding Crowd, Tess of the d'Urbervilles and Jude the Dark Thomas Hardy's novels are complex and complex works whose the plots seem to be completely planned out before the first word is actually formed on paper. Although I have no evidence of Hardy's writing method, it is clear that he focuses more on plot development than characterization in the novels Far from the Madding Crowd, Tess of the Urberville and Jude the Obscure. The benefits of this can be easily seen in the clever twists and turns that occur in the novel and hold the reader's interest. But the main reason why Hardy uses this method, especially in the tragedies Tess and Jude, is to present a moral argument to the reader through actions performed by and towards the main characters of the novels. By mapping out the turning points in advance, Hardy is able to control the course of his writing, and it emerges as social critique. But in doing so, the characters are condemned to literary predestination. Hardy focuses more on forcing the characters to perform these actions rather than allowing their personalities to develop fully and freely. Women perform most necessary but improbable actions, and Hardy attributes any erratic behavior to the woman's natural inconsistency. Thus, in pursuing a lofty literary goal, Hardy inadvertently delays the development of the main female characters. Jude the Dark is designed to show the flaws and repercussions of religious and social conventions, with an emphasis on marriage. According to Hardy, short-lived impulses drive people to marry, which binds couples until they die. When these feelings of affection fade, they must live together in the middle of a paper... finally, attracting the attention of a man she has no desire to be with, he transforms her character into teasing. She begins to be seen as a comic character and is given less respect. She is just another female character used to operate the machinery of Hardy's novels and thus takes on a more mechanical and stereotypical face. Hardy's intentions are noble. He tries to show the reasons for giving more social freedom to everyone, especially women, but in doing so compromises their characters. The novels would far benefit from a more spontaneous atmosphere and unfettered freedom of character development, but the novels might result in the loss of such powerful moral messages. So changing the characters might endanger the importance of the novels in the story, but would certainly improve the overall reading experience..