1. •Ankur Gupta
•Lokesh Garg
•Prateek Singhal
•Sarthak Khandelwal
•Vinay Suthar

2. THOMAS HARDY
Mayor of Casterbridge
Written in 1886. Revolves around the
fictional town called Casterbridge. Its
pure imagination of writer.
David Thacker
Novel adapted to TV-Series in
2003.
He has directed over 100 theatre
productions including
Shakespeare and Arthur.

3. CAST
Micheal Henchard
Susan
farfrae

4. Elizabeth Jane
Lucetta

5. PLOT

6. HENCHARD AS A SINSTER
Henchard gets drunk, and in an auction that begins as a joke but
turns serious, he sells his wife and their baby daughter to Mr.
Newson.

7. RE-AWAKING
Swears an oath that he
will not drink alcohol for
twenty-one years

8. SUSAN SEARCHES FOR HENCHARD
Susan and Elizabeth-Jane
seeks for Henchard.
Elizabeth-Jane believes he
is merely a long-lost
relative.

9. SUSAN MEETS HENCHARD
The parents meet
and decide that in
order to prevent
Elizabeth-Jane from
learning of their
disgrace

10. HENCHARD HIRES FARFRAE AS MANAGER
Henchard has hired
Donald Farfrae, a
young Scotchman, as
the new manager of
his corn business.

11. JANE AND FARFRAE
Elizabeth-Jane is intrigued by
Farfrae, and the two begin to
spend time together.

12. HENCHARD DISMISSES BY FARFRAE
He asks Farfrae to leave his
business and to stop courting
Elizabeth-Jane.

13. SUSAN FALLS ILL AND DIES
Susan falls ill and dies soon after her
remarriage to Henchard. After
discovering that Elizabeth-Jane is
not his own daughter, but Newson’s,
Henchard becomes increasingly cold
toward her.

14. LUCETTA ARRIVES
•Lucetta arrives with motive to
mary Henchard.
•Offers Jane to live with her
and she leaves Henchard’s
house.

15. LUCETTA MEETS FARFRAE
Lucetta meets Farfrae,
who has come to call on
Elizabeth-Jane

16. HENCHARD’S DOWNFALL
•Fermity woman exposed
Henchard character.
•He was removed from
Mayor’s position.

17. SKIMMITY RIDE
The peasants decide to
hold a “skimmity-ride,” a
humiliating parade
portraying Lucetta and
Henchard together.

18. NEWSON ARRIVES
Henchard tells him that she is
dead, and Newson leaves in
sorrow.

19. HENCHARD LEAVES
Henchard learns that Newson
has returned to town, and he
decides to leave rather than risk
another confrontation.

20. JANE AND FARFRAE MARRIES
Newson and Farfrae start
planning the wedding between
Jane and Farfare.

21. JANE SNUBS FATHER
•Henchard comes back to
Casterbridge on the night
of the wedding to see
Elizabeth-Jane, but she
snubs him.
• She soon regrets her
coldness, and she and
Farfrae, go looking for
Henchard to make
peace between them

22. HENCHARD DIES
They discovered that he
has died alone in the
countryside.

23. CHARACTER PLOT

24. HENCHARD
•Man of Character
•Impulsive
•Depicts mood swings
•A man ironically whose name
deserves to be remembered.

25. DONALD FARFRAE
•Man of intellect
•Model man of science
•Charismatic personality

26. ELIZABETH JANE
•Kind, simple, and uneducated
girl.
•She lacks Lucetta’s sense of
drama.
•Lacks her stepfather’s desire to
bend the will of others to her
own.

27. LUCETTA
•Lives recklessly according to her
passions and suffers for it.
•Proceeds to love whomever she
wants however she pleases.
•Lacks the boldness and certainty
of purpose

28. THEME
The theme of The Mayor of
Casterbridge appears to be the arbitrary
and almost always malign workings of
the universe and blind chance upon the
destinies of men. Such evil, unrelenting
machinations bring pain and suffering
upon the characters in the novel, and
there is no escape except in a day-today acceptance of life.

29. THE VALUE OF A GOOD NAME
The importance of a solid
reputation and character is
rather obvious given
Henchard’s situation. More
crucial, Henchard’s actions
result in the loss of his name
and his reputation as a worthy
and honorable citizen.

30. THE INDELIBILITY OF THE PAST
The Mayor of Casterbridge is
a novel haunted by the past.
Henchard’s fateful decision
to sell his wife and child at
Weydon-Priors continues to
shape his life eighteen years
later, while the town itself
rests upon its former
incarnation.

31. COINCIDENCE
The Mayor of
Casterbridge reveals a
structural pattern that relies
heavily on coincidence.
Coincidence seems less like
a product of poor plot
structure than an inevitable
consequence of malicious
universal forces.

32. THE TENSION BETWEEN PUBLIC LIFE AND PRIVATE
LIFE
Henchard’s fall can be
understood in terms of a
movement from the public arena
into the private one.
He moves from “the commercial
to the romantic,” concentrating
his energies on his personal and
domestic relationships with
Farfrae, Lucetta, and ElizabethJane.

33. ADAPTATION