Significant+Quotes

1.)"...and if I were a free man again I'd be worth a thousand pound before I'd done o't." (Chp.1) (Pg.5)
 * // Michael Henchard's belief that he could be successful if it hadn't been for his marriage coupled with too much alcohol, leads him to sell his family. This is the first occurence in the novel in which Henchard's obsession with position and social status causes him to act irrationally. //

2.)"He the engaged in the Newfoundland trade,and it was during this period that Susan had an awakening. A friend to whom she confided her history ridiculed her grave acceptance of her position; and all was over with her peace of mind." (Chp 4) (Pg.17) 3.)" Henchard's wife was dissevered from him by death; his friend and helper Farfrae by estrangement; Elizabeth-Jane by ignorance. (Chp 19 ) (Pg 87.)
 * // Susan Henchard is a rather passive and oblivious woman, for this reason Susan makes easy transitions from Henchard to Newson, that is until her friend interjects and causes an inconvience in Susan's Idea that manner in which he had acquired her as his "wife" was legally binding" //
 * // After Susan's death Michael begins to feel detached and disconnected in two of his most important relationships,this leads Michael to confess to Elizabeth-Jane that he and not Newson is her Father. //

4.) "A look of resignation settled upon her. Henchard saw it's bitterness; and had Lucetta's heart been promised to an other man in the world then Farfrae he would probably have had pity upon her at that moment." (Chp 27) (Pg. 143) //5.)// The regard he had lately acquired for Elizabeth, the new sprung hope of his loneliness that she would be to him a daughter of whom he could feel proud of as the daughter she still believed herself to be. 6.)On that day-almost at that minute-he passed the ridge of prosperity and honour, and began to descend rapidly on the other side." (Chp. 31) (Pg. 158)
 * //Henchard views Farfrae as the root of his troubles and sees Lucetta as a pawn to prove himself superior, at least in this right.//
 * //As Newson comes looking for Elizabeth-Jane Henchard lies telling him that she has died out of fear of losing her. This is an instance in which Michael is able too look past the fact that she is not truly his daughter and acknowledge the connection he has made with her.//


 * //All of Casterbridge learns of Henchard's past following the Furmity woman's outting him durin her case. Because he essentially equates his worth his name and status, to Henchard this ruins him, and allows him to rationalize his later actions,similar to the previous// //Henchard////, the man that autioned off his wife years earlier.//

7.)" I can understand why there should be a wee bit of envy; but I cannet see a reason for the whole intesity of what he feels." (Chp 34.) (pg. 175) 8.)Her position was,indeed, to a marked degree one that, in the common phrase, afforded much to be thankful for. that she was not demonstratively thankful was no fault of hers. Her experience had been of a kind teach to her...doubtful honor of a brief transit through a sorry world hardly called for effussiveness, even when the path was suddenly irridated at some halfway-point by daybeams rich as hers, But her strong sense that neither she nor any human being deserved less than was given, did not blind her to the fact that there were others receiving less who had deserved more." (Chp 45) (Pg 243)
 * //After Elizabeth-Jane warns him that she believes Henchard may try to hurt him Farfrae dismisses it as ridiculous, but then confides in Lucetta that he believes Henchard dislikes him. Farfrae thorughout the novel had good intentions within his relationship with Henchard, and while he acknowledges that Henchard may be jealous of how he has progressed, but cannot understand Henchard's feelings or justification for possibly wanting to harm him.//
 * //Because of Henchard's last wishes Elizabeth-Jane does not act on grief in a traditional manner instead she acknowledges that a life such as Henchard is deserving of pity and more than he received in life. She also subtlety states that if it had not been for his obsession with his idea of honor he might have received more out of his life.//

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