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. ... The Mayor of Casterbridge, like most of Hardy's work, is in fact more the platform for chance, which according to Roget's Thesaurus is, Absence of purpose in the succession of events. ... Henchard, like the other characters in Thomas Hardy's novel, The Mayor of Casterbridge are given choices to...

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During this time, the Hardy's marital difficulties were increasing and Thomas Hardy tended to have personal relationships with other women. ... Guerard who believes while Hardy wrote a number of compelling leading ladies into his works, he only created two men of more than average interest, Jude the Obscure's Jude Fawley and The Mayor of Casterbridge's Michael Henchard (Marquez 1562). ... Thomas Hardy and Paradoxes of Love. Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 1997.  Hardy, Thomas. ... United States of America: Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc., 1960.  H...

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