토마스 하아디의 小說속에 描寫되어 있는 男子像 = On the Fatal Character of a Man in the Novel, the Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy

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The main purpose of this essay is to appreciate the descriptions about the main character in the novel, The Mayor of Casterbridge--especially the hero's disastrous life ending in an unhappy death, and to observe Thomas Hardy's writing career as well as his fatalistic idea with which he described a man's mental conflicts with his beloved or rather once abandoned wife and daughter in the said novel. A brief comparison is given to the fatally ill-fated character of Blodwood in the novel, Far from the Madding Crowed and on the fatally vehement, hot-tempered character of King Lear.
Literally and critically speaking, thorough observations are mainly focused on the fatalistic, desolate and rewardless course of the unfortunate life of Michael Henchard as a main character and on some other minor characters, such as Susan Henchard, his step-daughter Elizabeth-Jane Newson and Lucetta Templman as well as Donald FarFrae.
It seems that Hardy always in the one determination of describing that a mortal life on earth should follow no other than a destinated fatal course of living, in other words, only to finish it in an unhappy death, whether in a sucidal, homicidal or natural situation in his novels.
Thomas Hardy, with the novel, The Mayor of Casterbridge, attempted to express his philosophy that the unhappy fate of a man originates not only from the external environment but also from the internal, so to say, personality, if it is cruel, greedy, jealous; actually undesirable one in relations to people around him.
Hardy's writing or living philosophy as a writer was to express some ordinary man's unfortunate struggle to live with his former, abandoned wife and daughter, even deceiving others without success; the fact of which is predestinated by his own extremely driving, vehement personality, as if in the words, "Character is Fate" in the novel. This sort of Hardy's writing attitude, however, also can be said that he was a great sympathizer with women, but he was not a bit a sympathizer towards Michael Henchard, whose unforunate downfall in his life was only due to his reckless, driving, jealous, somewhat stupid, unintellectual personality. Accordingly, he once gave the subtile of a Story of a Man of Character to the novel. The Mayor of Casterbridge.

목차 (Table of Contents)

• Ⅰ. 序 論
• Ⅱ. 激情的 性格의 不運 및 그 悲劇的 運命의 終末
• Ⅲ. 結 論