It All Starts in the Begining

Write an essay about the opening of the novel introduces major themes in the novel and explain how it functions this way.

They say that what starts bad ends bad and sometimes its hard to believe but then again their is cause and effect which complies with that saying. The Mayor of Caster bridge is a novel that had a very strong beginning setting the tone of the story line of unexpected events. In the beginning of this novel the main character sells his wife while he is drunk leaving a big scene and when he wakes the next morning he can't believe what he has done. Meaning he is a man that acts upon impulse, yes he was drunk but they say drunk people and children are always straight forward.

Micheal Henchard was chased by his past with undeniable doubt, but why? He was not a bad man he triend mending his errors as he bacame a man of good acts and had a very prosperous life as mayor of his town. The past is the begining and those both never erase they stay in the past but are always there to remind the peron how they got to where they did. So then Micheal Henchard always had his past haunting him remembering he does not drink anymore because of the grand mistake he did as a drunken man and impulsive behavior. As the story proceeds Micheal Henchard receives physical forms of his past from his wife and who he thinks is his daughter, they come back and he tries of feels that this is his opportunity to mend his conscience from that once beginning and creating a family. Nonetheless the oppoiste happens again because the past comes back to remind him who he is and that his nature shall not change no matter if her wants to become someone different. Micheal Henchard lost all he had worked for in order to forget his beginning becoming once again the impulsive drunken man that created his own misfortune.

The biginning is the start of things from life to paths taken to who you are going to be because of the choices that you take in a life time. Sadly sometimes out of impulse like Micheal Henchard the start of it all was the setting of what his whole life was like

The Mayor of Casterbridge the movie

The Mayor Of Casterbridge was created into a movie because it was apparently a very good novel witit ongoing misfortunes. Released 1978 this movie was adapted from the novel with good actors and story plot line it could not yet compare with the novel. The novel gave more to this story setting the sad tones to the story creating emotions that can only be created by a book. The novel gave more to the characters and leaving the readers with information of why and how the characters changed through out the novel. The movie can be seen as a tribute to the novel created by Thomas Hardy. It is great honor for such an old novel to be given the opportunity to come out to the public in a visual form as it did in the movie form.

Elizabeth Jane

Elizabeth Jane was a very important character that was always the one thaqt didn't know the truth and that probably was hurt the most. She was never spoken with the truth, always lied to and confused with pain. She felt that she was not good enough for what she wanted first Farfrae and then Micheal Henchard. The oddest part is that later on both of these characters are interested in this girl that in the novel grew into a woman. Micheal Henchard wanted to feel affection and comprehension on her behalf hoping to feel forgiveness for his impulses that created pain in his life. Farfrae was not to interested in Elizabeth Jane and later realizes that she is a woman worthy of much more than he had imagined. Elizabeth Jane can be seen as an innocent character that grew as an outcome of the people that surrounded her.

Micheal Henchard

Micheal Henchard is probably the most interesting character in this novel, with his on coming consequences of unfortunate events that came after his bad choice in a moment of impulse. Micheal Henchard sold his wife and that is where his misfortunes began. He tried to mend his error by changing his path in life and becoming a well respected man in a town called Casterbridge. He was always trying to give back to his conscience from his past. Even though time had past it came back to haunt him since you can never leave things undone. His wife came back bringing the past back to life and once again Micheal Henchards life goes down hill. He loses his position as mayor and is left in poverty and everything he once thought true was nothing but a mere lie. Why did the author do this? The author was probably trying to show that what starts wrong ends bad, nothing will be left unattended. Henchard was a good man the does change but it happens too late and the people lose faith in his word. Henchard did find love in life and learned his lesson late.

The Mayor of Casterbridge

The Mayor Of Casterbridge was published serially in two different versions in 1886. One of the versions is Graphics, which is the English version. The English version was more revised and changed since according to them it had inappropriate language. The other verion is the American one which came out in the Harpy Weekly. This version was much the original one since the language used was not taken offensively. This story came out during the Victorian period impacting the people with his on going tragedy with his protagonist Micheal Henchard.

Thomas Hardy

Thomas Hardy was born 1840 - 1928 and is mostly known for his naturalism movement novel Jude the Obscure and many more fascinating novels of his time period. Hardy was very well educated since a young age learning many different languages at local schools. He was an apprentice to a architect and learned the material well and decided to go to a school in Dorchester to get further in that source of studies. While in this distant land from his own he met Henry Moule which became a friend and mentor in his writing career helping him excel in this field. Thomas Hardy from that moment on would be unstoppable creating novels and poetry which would be left for people to aspire upon til this day.