THE DIALECTICS OF HUMAN DESTINY AND THE LAWS OF NATURE IN THE WORKS OF THOMAS HARDY AND XURSHID DUSTMUHAMMAD

Abstract

This article examines the dialectical relationship between human destiny and the laws of nature in the prose of Thomas Hardy and Xurshid Dustmuhammad. The study proceeds from the premise that nature in both writers is not a passive landscape but an active artistic category that interacts with character, social environment, moral choice, chance and historical circumstance. The analysis shows that Hardy often presents nature as an autonomous temporalspatial force whose cycles expose the fragility of human plans, while Dustmuhammad more frequently turns natural, vegetal and zoomorphic images into psychological and symbolic codes revealing moral pressure, social deformation and inner transformation. In both poetics, destiny emerges not as a simple predetermined scheme but as a dynamic field produced by the interaction of natural necessity, social constraint and personal agency. The article argues that the dialectics of human destiny and natural law is one of the key conceptual bridges linking the two writers despite differences in national tradition, historical context and narrative method