The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886)
Relationships can easily and, if one must add, with fair amount of evidence, be proven to be part or even the center of social-interaction since it is through them that people learn to communicate and treat each other. There exist some relationships that with strong connections and goals linking them interact harmoniously and almost in synchrony together, one of them being families. Parents, siblings, relatives, all coexist perfectly due to the strong ties they form, being love or blood-duty, they depend and care for each other regardless of the obstacle. However, in The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886), the relationship between Elizabeth and her father, Henchard, the mayor, is nowhere near the harmonious relationship families are known for, raging, instead, along those short, necessary relations formed during normal social-interaction. Driven by the desire to please her demanding father, Elizabeth tries her hardest to improve her low-class education and manners, but at any sign of progress or …show more content…
Even going as far as to volunteer to "saddle herself with manual labors" in order to gain at least a small amount of the love she was uselessly seeking.
The complex relationship between Elizabeth and the mayor of Casterbridge is portrayed as such due to Elizabeth's puzzling pursue of love and a family where there is evidently none. The negative, restrained tone as well as selection of detail and diction throughout the passage provide the sufficient evidence to label the senseless, complicated lifestyle Elizabeth has chosen with her father to be a complicated
Relationships can easily and, if one must add, with fair amount of evidence, be proven to be part or even the center of social-interaction since it is through them that people learn to communicate and treat each other. There exist some relationships that with strong connections and goals linking them interact harmoniously and almost in synchrony together, one of them being families. Parents, siblings, relatives, all coexist perfectly due to the strong ties they form, being love or blood-duty, they depend and care for each other regardless of the obstacle. However, in The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886), the relationship between Elizabeth and her father, Henchard, the mayor, is nowhere near the harmonious relationship families are known for, raging, instead, along those short, necessary relations formed during normal social-interaction. Driven by the desire to please her demanding father, Elizabeth tries her hardest to improve her low-class education and manners, but at any sign of progress or …show more content…
Even going as far as to volunteer to "saddle herself with manual labors" in order to gain at least a small amount of the love she was uselessly seeking.
The complex relationship between Elizabeth and the mayor of Casterbridge is portrayed as such due to Elizabeth's puzzling pursue of love and a family where there is evidently none. The negative, restrained tone as well as selection of detail and diction throughout the passage provide the sufficient evidence to label the senseless, complicated lifestyle Elizabeth has chosen with her father to be a complicated