Henchard and farfrae contrast

Henchard and farfrae tellHenchard and Farfrae contrast individually other, both by the states of their characters, and by the ideas they evoke. Farfrae is testament to the power of modernity and change and, in Casterbridge, an echt impetus of it. He implements new farming and harvesting techniques. Henchard, however, is representative of tradition and unprogressive stability while Henchard is Mayor the t protest merely survives, while under Farfrae it flourishes.Unlike the contrast that is presented between Henchard and Farfrae, Henchard and Lucetta are presented as compliments. They are real much alike inclined to strong, irrational passions, characterized by willful, independent natures, and compelled by acknowledge as well as ambition. However, Lucetta is not a woman of character. Unlike Henchard, Lucettas primarily obligation is to her own happiness, whereas Henchards is to a higher soul of interpersonal responsibility and the moral amendment of past mistakes. This commit ment to the right-course is what both compels Henchard to purify his moral and material condition and what prevents him from taking possession of his happiness.Farfrae and Elizabeth-Jane are also presented as compliments to each other. They are both emotionally moderate, not excited into extremes of emotion the way that Henchard and Lucetta are (although Farfraes infatuation for Lucetta was quite impulsive). I think that Elizabeth-Jane is truly the most admirable character in the book. She seems to have a subtle, unobtrusive beauty and reserved manner that I find more compelling than Lucettas sophisticated prettiness and sexy demeanor. Lucetta is not a deep or especially intelligent woman we get the sense that Elizabeth-Jane is very much is both of those things. She is kind, compassionate, empathetic and beautiful still she is not, however, a one-dimensional doormat the way Tamsin is in The Return of the Native. Although Farfrae and Elizabeth-Jane are presented as similar charac ters, I think Elizabeth-Jane is still more admirable. Farfrae is ambitious, smart, successful, and very kind, yet Elizabeth-Jane seems to exude a greater degree of profound empathy, perhaps because she has suffered so much herself.The tone of this tonic is both very much like barefaceds other novels and somewhat different. There is a strong sense of determinism in the novel I sense that the lives of these characters are almost predestined- their life-courses are inevitable, it is only the emotions that they feel that are subject to the change. I think that Hardy suggests that the natural world, fate, time, and chance are not antagonist to mankind life, but rather somewhat indifferent to it- for individual people are so inconsequential amidst the greater profundity of Life itself. This gives the book a somewhat melancholy, but not necessary pessimistic tone. Ultimately, Hardy suggests that the novel is like life itself ambiguous, neither good nor bad, triumphant or self-defeating.