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Mayor Of Casterbridge 3
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One of the most striking aspects of the novel, The Mayor of Casterbridge, for example, is the role of festival and the characters' perceptions of, and reactions to, the festive. The novel opens with Henchard, his wife and baby daughter arriving at Weydon-Priors fair. It is a scene of festive holida ....
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....ffing and grunting over their plates like sows nuzzling for acorns', the scenes of revelry in the Three Mariners and Peter's Finger - culminate in ' the great jocular plot' of the skimmington. This 'uncanny revel', which like a 'Daemonic Sabbath' was accompanied by 'the din of cleavers, tongs, tambourines, kits, crouds, humstrums, serpents, rams'-horns, and other historical kinds of music' is completely hidden from 'official' Casterbridge for when the magistrates roust out the trembling constabl.... |
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