One of the questions Thomas Hardy poses in his masterwork novel, The Mayor of Casterbridge, is the relationship between character and chance in destiny. Destiny in this novel most closely relates to the idea of destiny put forth in Robert Frost's poem "The Road Not Taken," where chance defines the paths for a person to take, but it is the person's character itself, which decides the path he or she takes in the end. Through Hardy's tale of the rise and fall of Michael Henchard, the reader gets a clear example of this all-important idea Hardy wants to convey: that character indeed is fate.
Throughout the reader's experience with Michael Hench
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