Character could be shown working, therefore, not subjectively but in the act, if you chose a peasant subject.

His philosophy, expressed in this medium, is sombre.

In his novels you can trace a gradual realization of the defects of natural laws and the quandary men are put to by their operation.

Chance, an irritating and trifling series of coincidences, plays the part of fate.

Nature seems to enter with the hopelessness of man's mood.