Thomas Hardy - The Writer who saw no evil

He was unique in that he almost completely created only sympathetic characters in his works. Probably the only negative character is Jude's first wife, Arabella, who entrapped him into marriage & was already meeting his successor when he was on his deathbed.

Hardy may be seen as the male alter ego of his immortal creation, Tess of d'Urbervilles, whom he provocatively called "A Pure Woman", when according to man-made laws, she had committed the most heinous crimes. Even Alec d'Urberville, who seduced her, wanted to make amends & marry her at the end.

Similarly, Eustacia Vye, the so-called bad woman of "The Return of the Native" was pushed by fate (& pricked by the villagers for a witch) & drowned herself. Bathsheba Everdeen of "Far from the madding crowd", though keeping three suitors, Gabriel Oak, Farmer Boldwood & Sgt. Troy on the line, was no coquette, but an indecisive woman. Michael Henchard, "The Mayor of Casterbridge", an able man as proved by becoming the Mayor, had a weakness for drink, which caused him in a fit of inebriation to sell his wife & daughter to a sailor, with consequent problems (including a humiliating parade of his effigy with that of his lover) leading to his self-willed solitary death. (Incidentally this dramatic opening scene of selling his family can be used as a temperance text.)

To conclude, one can return to "Jude the Obscure", where due to poverty caused by social ostracism,  his eldest child kills his siblings & then hangs himself, with a heart wrenching note saying "Done because we are too menny."