Mayor of casterbridge

come in the novel and Hardy's style? In the first chapter of the Mayor of Casterbridge, the main characters are introduced to us from the outset (a young family with a small child approaching the village of Weydon-Priors,) with the opening line informing the reader immediately of fundamental characters in the story. Thomas Hardy then immediately moves on to establish the protagonist, prior to conveying images of the village setting to the reader. Thus, Hardy suggests to the reader that the main

Inebriation, a sort of internal supernatural experience, is the antithesis of reality, something on which literary realism is based. Although the real lives of countless people throughout history has involved the use or overuse of alcohol, it is important to recognize the effect it has of essentially removing its user from reality. A drunken individual perceives his or her environment in a dreamlike way; reality exists only in the individual’s peripheral. That much of what literary realism we have

A Thesis ANALYSIS ON TRAGIC CHARACTER IN THE MAYOR OF CASTERBRIDGE By ANDRI HERMANSYAH 102026024515 ENGLISH LETTERS DEPARTMENT FACULTY OF ADAB AND HUMANITIES SYARIF HIDAYATULLAH STATE ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY JAKARTA 2009 APPROVEMENT ANALYSIS ON TRAGIC CHARACTER IN THE MAYOR OF CASTERBRIDGE A Thesis Submitted to the Faculty of Adab and Humanities In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements For the Degree of Strata (S 1) By ANDRI HERMANSYAH 102026024515 Advisory: INAYATUL

Art as Technique 1. Defamiliarization is stripping objects or subjects from their individual or “familiar” characteristics and giving them unusual or “unfamiliar” traits to allow the reader to see it in a whole new perspective. An example of this is in Tolstoy's defamiliarization of spanking, explaining the act as “to strip people who have broken the law, to hurl them to the floor, and to rap on their bottoms with switches.” The crude description removes the disciplinary context it had and

in reality is the fate that was always predestined for us. Furthermore, character is not the only factor in determining our lives. We must consider external factors such as the environment, nature and fortune. For example, in the novel ‘The Mayor of Casterbridge’ by Thomas Hardy, the main character, Mr. Henchard organizes a fair for the townspeople in order to show the people that despite what he appears to be, he is really kind and humane. Everything turns out wrong for him because heavy rain ruins

village of Dorset, a town that known for its ability to remain relatively untouched for hundreds of year by modern society in both quality of life and mentalities. Hardy bases his story, The Mayor of Casterbridge, in the town of Casterbridge, which is based on his own hometown of Dorset. Within this town of Casterbridge, we follow, as Hardy puts it, “A Story of a Man of Character”. This supposed Man of Character, is Michael Henchard, a man with a tumultuous past and an excess of secrets. This story also

CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION A novel is the name ascribed to the genre of literature which is the result of creative mind of a writer and the readers come in contact with the fictional world of the novels through its language. Hence, for comprehending fictional texts, a close study and analysis of language is a necessary prerequisite. Stylistic analysis is used as an analytical tool to see textual patterns and its significance. It is based on statistical data that

the state of being elaborate and complicated. In relationships, when the individuals do not possess alike ethics, they entangle themselves into a silent lack of interest and concern for one another. In this selection from Thomas Hardy’s The Mayor of Casterbridge, a complex relationship is shaped by two characters with distinctly diverse values, a father and his daughter, through the character’s evolution of a shared dislike of one another, refusal to tolerate lower-class propensities, and a lasting

The Victorian novel was forged in the Victorian Era, hence it is impossible to conceive it without the understanding of the context in which it sprouted. The Victorian Era comprises the reign of the Queen Victoria, from her ascension to the throne in 1837 until her death 1901 (and subsequent coronation of Edward). However, in literature the Victorian Age is also considered to begin with the death of Sir Walter Scott in 1832 and sometimes it extends until 1914. It was a period of great changes, as

Tess and the Color Red For an artist as visually sensitive as Hardy, colour is of the first importance and significance, and there is one colour which literary catches the eye, and is meant to catch it, throughout the book. This colour is red, the colour of blood, which is associated with Tess from first to last. It dogs her, disturbs her, destroys her. She is full of it, she spills it, she loses it. Watching Tess' life we begin to see that her destiny is nothing more