The Mayor of Casterbridge — AS English Literature Student Guide

Master Thomas Hardy’s The Mayor of Casterbridge with this comprehensive Coleman’s Notes® Student Guide.

Designed particularly for students studying WJEC Eduqas AS English Literature, this detailed 59-page guide combines close analysis of Hardy’s novel with extensive examination and revision support.

Follow Michael Henchard from the shocking wife-sale at Weydon-Priors through his rise to prosperity and civic authority in Casterbridge and his eventual decline. Explore his relationships with Donald Farfrae, Elizabeth-Jane, Lucetta Templeman, Susan Henchard and Richard Newson, while examining Hardy’s treatment of fate, pride, secrecy, family, reputation, social change and the enduring consequences of the past.

Inside the guide:

• Complete plot summary
• Detailed chapter-group analysis covering all 45 chapters
• Michael Henchard as a tragic protagonist
• Donald Farfrae, Elizabeth-Jane and Lucetta Templeman
• Susan Henchard, Richard Newson and the Casterbridge community
• Character relationships and development
• Fate, chance and consequence
• Pride, temper and self-destruction
• The past, memory and secrecy
• Love, family and belonging
• Work, reputation and social status
• Modernity, tradition and change
• Hardy’s language, structure and narrative form
• Symbols and motifs
• Casterbridge and Victorian society
• WJEC Eduqas AS examination guidance
• Five structured essay plans
• Five model answers
• 25 Exam & Revision Questions
• Fifteen Key Episodes
• Ten Critical Debates
• Close-reading dossiers
• AO workshops
• 30 Quick-Recall Questions with answers
• Final revision checklist

Ideal for independent revision, classroom support, home education and tutoring.

Format: Digital PDF
Series: Coleman’s Notes® Student Guide Series
Reference: CN-SG043
Individual Student Guide: £7.95

Also available as part of the Thomas Hardy Collection, containing five premium Student Guides:

Tess of the d’Urbervilles • Far from the Madding Crowd • The Mayor of Casterbridge • Jude the Obscure • The Return of the Native

Complete five-guide collection: £34.95

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