Financial Crunch and Human Relationships in Thomas Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge
Dr Shashikant Mhalunkar
, Miss Dimple Prajapati
Financial meltdown, man-woman relationship, crunch
Thomas Hardy is one of the eminent novelists in English in the late 19th and the early 20th century who exhibits different contours of human relations that go for toss due to social, climatic, political, and financial fluctuations. The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886) is Hardy’s masterpiece that projects the nexus between the altering man-woman relationships due to the external changes like the climate and economic crunch. Hardy projects how nature turns the wheel of fortune, resulting into financial gains and losses that alter human relationships. Financial decisions govern human relations. Michael Henchard develops healthy human relations due to his sound financial status, whereas the vice versa pushes him to doom. The present paper attempts to trace how human relations swing with the change in finance and market. The novel showcases the rise of trade and political power in the late nineteenth century that shapes and shatters and reshapes human relations
"Financial Crunch and Human Relationships in Thomas Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge", TIJER - TIJER - INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH JOURNAL (www.TIJER.org), ISSN:2349-9249, Vol.10, Issue 2, page no.345-354, February-2023, Available :https://tijer.org/TIJER/papers/TIJER2302048.pdf
Volume 10
Issue 2,
February-2023
Pages : 345-354
Paper Reg. ID: TIJER_100580
Published Paper Id: TIJER2302048
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Research Area: Science and Technology
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