Essay Archive - An Analysis of The Mayor of Casterbridge
An Analysis of The Mayor of Casterbridge
The plot of The Mayor of Casterbridge, by Thomas Hardy, can often be
confusing and difficult to follow. The pages of this novel are filled with sex,
scandal, and alcohol, but it provides for a very interesting and unique story.
It all begins one day in the large Wessex village of Weydon-Priors. Michael
Henchard, a young hay-trusser looking for work, enters the village with his wife
and infant daughter. What follows next, is certainly a little out of the
ordinary, and this book provides and interesting plot, that is sur....
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