Commodification of the Female in Hardy’sThe Mayor of Casterbridge

Abstract

Thisstudy of Hardy’sThe Mayor of Casterbridgetries tounveil the female’s position in patriarchal society under thetitle “Commodification of the Female in Hardy’sThe Mayor of Casterbridge”. Conditions of female characters are not better than the marketable commodity. They are controlled and deserted by the males who handle the property. Capitalistic mode of property distribution is inherited by patriarchal society and female are the victims of that mode. All the female characters are suffering from male domination caused by property handlings. So, to liberate them from such domination, economic distribution should be equalized and the concept of patriarchal superiority, which is caused mainly by property distribution, should be changed.