Question

State some social changes in the nineteenth century in britain which thomas hardy wrote about in his novel mayor of casterbridge

Answer 1

The breaking up of rural communities because of industrialization. Due to industrialization, peasants who toiled with their lands were disappearing as large or big farmers enclosed lands, bought machines and employed labourers to produce for the market.

(ii) In his novel ‘Mayor of Casterbridge’, Hardy mourns the loss of the more personalized world which is being replaced by a more efficiently managed urban culture.