Wifelovers Archives 2009

This novel was a wonderful surprise gift forum Time Stories and that always I will have a special affection.

The argument is simple: Michael Henchard, a laborer, sells his wife and daughter for five guineas a few months during one of their drunkenness. After realizing what he has done, promises not to drink over the next twenty years, succeeded in becoming an honest person. But life has in store several surprises that come with the return of what was his wife.

had not read anything by Thomas Hardy, nor have I seen any version of Tess of the D' Ubervilles , but it seems that this author leaves little to the joy. Well, yes I've seen an adaptation of Under the Greenwood Tree and at least ends well. What most caught my attention is that the author goes straight to the point, ie not mince words when introducing us to Michael Henchard as a strength capable of committing such aberration to sell his family. After deflating the novel is a bit until you respawn Susan and Elizabeth-Jane, wife and daughter, respectively. These are joined Donald Farfrae, a character who becomes the opposite of Henchard and Lucetta, someone who has some relationship with the protagonist and that will be crucial to the novel.

In the book we can establish two types of characters, those who hide a secret (Henchard, Susan and Lucetta) and victims of these secrets (Farfrae and Elizabeth-Jane). Mystery has little, because the author is leaving things pretty clear throughout the novel. It is more a character piece, its evolution, or rather of its destiny, particularly that of Henchard, who seems condemned to finally pay what he did when he was twenty.

Several adaptations. Yet I have both the 2003 miniseries, starring Ciaran Hinds as a free version of Michael Winterbottom's The Claim entitled. When you see, will edit the entry.

EDIT: I've seen the version with Ciaran Hinds. Excellent adaptation, yes sir, with some players who embroider their roles. And I cried at the end. I liked it.