The Mayor of Casterbridge The Mayor of Casterbridge was written in 1884 and 1885, serialized in the Graphic from 2 January to 15 May 1886, and then published by Smith, Elder & Co. in 1886. ... This work, written down from his students' notes, was an attempt to describe what makes a tragedy. ... Thomas Hardy used a Victorian interpretation of Aristotle in writing The Mayor of Casterbridge. ... In The Mayor of Casterbridge, Hardy's descriptions are his odes. ... This tragic moment occurs in The Mayor of Casterbridge in Chapter XLIV. ...

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The Wessex girl Eustacia, the mayor of Casterbridge, Tess of the d'Urbervills and stone-mason Jude, as described by Hardy, vibrate our heart with the profundity of tragic vision and intensity of tragic feeling. ... We feel greatly unlifted by the courage and vitality shown in their heroic struggle against fate. " In the symphony of Hardy's tragic novel, tuned to the dominant tone of pessimism, there seems an unmistakable note of optimism which solaces the soul of the heart-broken listener" (Qi and Morgan 86). ...

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In the Mayor of Casterbridge experiment reported in Chapter 4, frequently repeated words were acquired by more of the learners than words that occurred in the text less often. ... For instance, in all 21,000 words of the simplified version of The Mayor of Casterbridge, we were able to identify only eight items that were both unusual enough to be unknown to the learners (i.e. not among the 2000 most frequent English words) and used in the text at least seven times. ...

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