Although Thomas Hardy's novel, The Mayor of Casterbridge presents predetermination as a major role in the characters lives, the novel should also be seen as a platform for free will. ... Hardy is Victorian, also' (Ray 7) Thomas Hardy was considered a fatalist. ... Henchard, like the other characters in Thomas Hardy's novel, The Mayor of Casterbridge are given choices to make and they alone choose the path in which life will take them. ... Works Cited Aristotelian Tragedy and the Novels of Thomas Hardy Philip V. Allingham, Contributing Editor, Victorian Web; Facul...

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In Thomas Hardy's novel, The Mayor of Casterbridge, the fruit of cruelty and insensitivity appear throughout the novel. ... With that denial by Jopp, Hardy shows Jopp is indeed, cruel and insensitive. In addition to Joshua Jopp, Thomas Hardy uses the townspeople to demonstrate cruelty and insensitivity in The Mayor of Casterbridge. ... Although Thomas Hardy's presentation of Joshua Jopp and the townspeople show signs of cruelty and insensitivity in The Mayor of Casterbridge, Hardy also uses meek and humble people, such as Elizabeth-Jane Newsome, to present cruelty and insensitivity i...

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Hardy himself seems unclear about the nature of Henchard's hamartia when he quotes Novalis: "Character is fate"--certainly a useful aphorism for a Victorian novelist, though something about which Aristotle in The Poetics does not address. ... However, in terms of emotional response, the ultimate fate of Tess, scion of once-proud aristocratic family brought low by Hardy's twin enemies of humanity (Time and Chance), arouses more pity and fear in a modern reader than does Henchard's. ... http://www.goldenessays.com/alphabetic/1/book-rep/mayor-of-casterbridge.htm In Thomas ...

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The pre twentieth novels "The Mayor of Casterbridge- written by Thomas Hardy and "Wuthering Heights- composed by the author Emily Bronte are based upon the lives of two men who had loved and lost, and the situations and outcomes that resulted from their foolish and wise decisions that they made throughout their lives. ...

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