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How do the writers Thomas Hardy and Alice Walker use their protagonist's Roselily and Phyllis to explore the conflict between social convention and personal desires?
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How do the writers Thomas Hardy and Alice Walker use their protagonist's Roselily and Phyllis to explore the conflict between social convention and personal desires? In the Melancholy Hussar of the German Legion, Thomas Hardy chooses to explore the conflict between social convention and personal desires by creating a situation in which his central character, Phyllis, has to choose whether or not to follow her personal desires under the theme of love. Like in Roselily by Alice Walker, the same situation is explored again through love. However the way in which the two different writers choose to explore this theme is somewhat different. Both of the writers are renound for their individual feelings and sensitivity towards the position of women in society, and I feel that this is one of the main reasons for the two writers choosing their protagonist characters to be women and also for them choosing...
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