Thomas Hardys Mayor of Casterbridges SETTING

Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge does an excellent job of displaying Casterbridge's realistic Western England setting through the architectural buildings, the behavior of the townspeople, and the speech used throughout the novel. All of these aspects combined provide a particular environment Hardy called "Wessex" which infuses the work with reality and a life. The love which Hardy had, for architecture, is displayed throughout this novel with the descriptions of the surrounding countryside, the buildings, the …

…is a full grown woman who has her life established and knows where she stands in social status. She is melancholy and kind. A matronly woman whose speech seems highly studied and affected. Hardy does an excellent job of taking the little things society tends to overlook and accenting them to show how realistic each individual is in the town of Casterbridge. The townspeople, the buildings, and the speech of every individual throughout the novel