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An Analysis of The Mayor of Casterbridge


The plot of The Mayor of Casterbridge, by Thomas Hardy, can often be
confusing and difficult to follow. The pages of this novel are filled with sex,
scandal, and alcohol, but it provides for a very interesting and unique story.
It all begins one day in the large Wessex village of Weydon-Priors. Michael
Henchard, a young hay-trusser looking for work, enters the village with his wife
and infant daughter. What follows next, is certainly a little out of the
ordinary, and this book provides and interesting plot, that is sure to brighten
up any boring day.
Michael Henchard, looking for something to drink, enters into a tent
where an old woman is selling furmity, a liquid pudding made of boiled wheat,
eggs, sugar, and spices. Henchard consumes too many bowls of furmity spiked with
rum. Feeling trapped by his marriage and under the influence, Henchard threatens
to auction his family. The auction begins as a kind of cruel joke, but Susan......

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