Thomas Hardy grew up in Victorian England where social norms dictated harsh treatment of women and strict gender roles. However, Hardy disagreed with these conventional views on how people should act. As a child, Hardy was exposed to stories of the supernatural from his family's servants, including his mother, who worked as a domestic servant. Most households employed multiple male servants in roles like butlers, footmen, and coachmen, and people were warned against abusing their staff.

2. • Knows that how women were treated in
Victorian society was harsh.
• ‘The social mould civilization fits us into have
no more relation to our actual shapes than
the conventional shapes of the constellations
have to the real star-patterns.’ shows he
disagreed with the view on how people
should act and be treated.

3. • Prisoner
• Most households that had servants employed
two or three male servants, normally they
would definitely have a butler then most likely
a footman and a coachman.
• People were warned against abusing servants
in Thomas Hardy's time.

5. •
•Thomas Hardy, learnt Latin in Dorchester.
•He never had fewer than two servants.
•As a child, Thomas Hardy heard various stories
of supernatural viewings from the family
servants.
•His mother was a domestic servant.