JAMB - Literature In English (1995 - No. 34)

From the novel; The Mayor of Casterbridge

This question is based on Thomas Hardy''s The Mayor of Casterbirdge.

What makes the novel a tragedy?

The poetic justice in Henchard''s punishment

All the character in the novel are failures

A mixture of individual and circumstantial misfortune

Thomas Hardy is a romantic and rustic pessimist