亚里斯多德在《诗学》中指出:“喜剧摹仿比我们今天的人坏的人,悲剧摹仿比我们今天的人好的人”。这儿所谓的“比我们今天的人好的人”实际上是指那些超出于一般人之上的悲剧英雄,他们也许具有格外高尚的品格,也许是一些有着很严重的性格弱点但却有极大的意志力量、有一点悲剧的崇高感的人。《卡斯特桥市长》正是这样一部性格悲剧史。主人公麦克尔.亨察尔原是个善良、憨 Aristotle pointed out in Poetics: “Comedy imitates people who are worse than us today, and tragedies imitate those who are better than us today.” The “people who are better here than we are today” actually refer to those tragic heroes that go beyond the average person. They may have extraordinarily noble qualities, but they may be extremely weak but have very serious characters Great willpower, a little tragedy lofty people. “Caster Bridge” is such a history of tragedy. The protagonist Michael Henchard was originally a kind, foolish