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In your opinion, how do you analyse Hardy’s The Mayor of Casterbridge. Shed some light upon the events that clearly demonstrate your analysis such when he sold his wife and daughter. |
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Answer» It is approximately eighteen years later. Susan Henchard, her face less round and her hair thinner, who now calls herself "Mrs. Newson," is again walking ALONG the dusty road into Weydon-Priors. She WALKS hand in hand with her daughter, Elizabeth-Jane, young, "well-formed," pretty, and vivacious. The two women are dressed in black, and we learn that Richard Newson, Susan's "husband" who BOUGHT her many years ago, has been lost at sea. "Mrs. Newson" is in quest of a "relation," as she has told Elizabeth-Jane, whose name is MICHAEL Henchard, whom she had last seen at the fair in Weydon-Priors. However, she has not told Elizabeth-Jane of her true relationship to Henchard, the hay-trusser. Explanation: |
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