The Defiant Endurance of Misery : Aristotle's Poetics Applied to Thomas Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge
Summary
This thesis discusses whether Aristotle's Poetics - in which Aristotle explains his theory of his ideal tragedy - is still relevant, by applying it to Thomas Hardy's nineteenth-century novel The Mayor of Casterbridge. This thesis tries to demonstrate how Hardy conforms to, and also challenges Aristotle's Poetics.