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By the time he published The Mayor of Casterbridge, Hardy had built a considerable following for his Wessex novels and tales: The reader could expect colorful dialogue, faithfully reproduced; a certain half-humorous, half-crabbed character in the natives; a good deal of poetic treatment of both town and country.
In a fit of drunken anger, Michael Henchard sells his wife and baby daughter for five guineas at a country fair. Over the course of the following years, he manages to establish himself as a respected and prosperous pillar of the community of Casterbridge, but behind his success there always lurk the shameful secret of his past and a personality ...
About The Mayor of Casterbridge. From its spectacular opening–the astonishing scene in which drunken Michael Henchard sells his wife and daughter to a passing sailor at a county fair–to the breathtaking series of discoveries at its conclusion, The Mayor of Casterbridge claims a unique place among Thomas Hardy’s finest and most powerful novels.
The most important theme of The Mayor of Casterbridge clearly concerns the weight and demands of the past. Not everyone has a secret in her or his past comparable with Henchard's, but many people ...
Despite Lucetta’s desire to leave the village, Farfrae becomes mayor of Casterbridge. Jopp, a former employee of Henchard, knows of Lucetta’s past, because he lived in Jersey before coming to ...
Há 5 dias · All episodes of The Mayor of Casterbridge. Episode 1. 1 / 7 Mayor Michael Henchard sold his family at a fair. Now his wife has returned.
The Mayor of Casterbridge: The Life and Death of a Man of Character and one of my all-time favourite books, with possibly one of the most fascinating book characters. The Mayor of Casterbridge is the unsympathetic portrayal of a man unable to control his own temperament, doomed by his own insensitivity, cursed by his own pride, and tormented by his own past.
