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This 6 page paper gives a brief overview of Thomas Hardy's book, The Mayor of Casterbridge. The main thesis is if character determines destiny. Examples and quotes are given from the text to support the statement. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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to be answer quite summarily by Thomas Hardys novel, The Mayor Of Casterbridge. It also seems to answer the question about what is important in life.
What is destiny? This term is used often and flippantly enough to earn a definitive explanation, but it would seem that there is no answer
that any expert or philosopher, for that matter, will agree with. What one can determine from a comparison of these, though, is that destiny is that which seems predetermined to
happen, for better or worse. This whole concept of predestination does have its opponents however. The biggest argument to this is,
of course, that ones character can influence destiny as can environment and socio-economic climates. As Thomas Hardys example shows, man can dig himself into a hole as well as bail
himself out. Michael Henchard digs a very big hole, and it can be said, continues to deepen it for the rest of his life.
Enter the example of Michael Henchard, who is a field hand of some type out in the country. He is a detestable man and drinks a lot.
While he, his wife, and their child are traveling, they stop at a fair. Henchard becomes so drunk that he sells his wife and child to a sailor, named Calle
Newson(Mayor of Casterbridge, 2002). However, this seems to sober him up when he realizes what he has done. ...."Yet she knows I am not in my senses when I
do that!" he exclaimed. "Well, I must walk about till I find her....Seize her, why didnt she know better than bring me into this disgrace!" he roared out. "She wasnt
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