The Rise and Fall of Michael Henchard in the novel “The Mayor of Casterbridge” by Thomas Hardy A story of a man of character

Abstract

There are many determining factors that can be considered as the main cause of success andfailure of a certain person in life which is full of challenges. And those who never care for thecertain causes of their failure will fall, meanwhile those who want to learn the causes of theirfailure will rise. It seems so simple if just talk about ‘realize’, but in this context is the person whorealizes and determines to change the causes, or at least to suppress them so that they will not bethe influential elements for certain failure. “Several critics have pointed to the classical tragicshape of ‘The Mayor of Casterbridge’. It is the story of the rise and fall of a man of character, aman flawed in certain destructive ways; his story is confined in space and time: there clear echoesof Greek tragedy and of King Lear